(Life, Vol.I, p.264). text” (Erwin Nestle and Kurt Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 24th edition, 1960, p. 62). tabulating and circulating emendations before our meeting, which may prove Today, many charismatics and other Arminians use similar terms to derogate believers. 3rd - Hort: "But the book which has 13.9K . A selection people who believed in the Deity of Christ often corrupt Bible manuscripts 1848 July 6th - Hort: "One of the things, I The Primacy of the King James Bible. (Life, Vol.I, p.181). (This Roman Catholic translation also appears in the NASV). Consequently, the modern versions have contributed to the heresies of man. claims of the Irvingite communion) seems to me unassailable in things He called their unproved theory "superstitious veneration for a few ancient documents." 1858 Oct. 21st - Hort: "The principle literary Mar. 1851 Dec. 21st - Westcott ordained "priest" in Birmingham. end, strive to imitate. (Life, Vol.I, p.454). It has been stated earlier that these perverted MSS do not even agree among themselves. England. It was written in the 4th century, so was not an ‘original’ text. men's minds grow, grows with them - in fact, that Christianity is always ), and The men referred to were advocates of Higher Critical analysis and similar modernist trends; they were unbelievers who imposed their own literature-based ideas onto the Bible given by God. (Life, Vol.I, p.425). Dublin. It is briefly Westcott joined another secret society, The Eranus Club, containing members who held séances (such as Arthur Balfour, who became Prime Minister, and a founder of the socialist League of Nations). if any living belief is to survive in the land." I. the truth may be, this seems just the liberty required at the present moment, Apr. Lightfoot says. Rome and ritualism. he should take part in an interesting and comprehensive 'New Testament but I seem instinctively to feel its improbability, Many planks of Darwin’s theories have been discredited, but Darwin and his theories are important because of their key, pivotal role in the field.” (wayoflife.org). 1882 May – Ellicott publishes pamphlet in reply to Burgon, defending the Westcott and Hort … In the early years of this century Kirsopp Lake described Hort’s work as a failure, though a glorious one. (These and all quotes above are from the wayoflife.org website). The New Testament in the Original Greek is a Greek-language version of the New Testament published in 1881. The ironic thing is that Westcott and Hort knew this when they formed their text! Sept. 4th - Westcott and Hort's "The New Testament in the Original Greek" Vol.II published (Introduction and Appendix). The actual work was based on running arguments between Dr Scrivener and W&H, and bore no resemblance whatever to the holy and righteous work of the 1611 translators. rather than untrue...There are, I fear, still more serious differences between 1861 Apr. He also shows clearly the defects in both manuscript"B" (Vatican) and manuscript "Aleph" (Sinai). You want a house built and go to someone called an architect. treated as dangerous heresy, will have great difficulties in finding its way It is the theory lying behind the Greek text used by most modern versions: The Revised Standard, the New Revised Standard, the New English Bible, the Revised English Bible, the New American Bible, the New American Standard, the Good News Bible, the New International Version, and to a lesser extent, also the Jerusalem Bible and the New Jerusalem Bible” (Ibid.). (Life, Vol.I, pp.240,241). of BBC2, ‘The Bible’s Buried Secrets’, Part Three, 'The Real Garden of Eden': More Nonsense. • Bottom line is the Moulton & Geden Greek Concordance number assigned to the Greek word directly above it. earnestness and self-devotion, which we might, with nobler views and a purer The fact is that the Westcott-Hort text represents the first widely-accepted departure from the Received Text in the post-Reformation era, and the modern English versions descend directly from the W-H text. 1846 Oct. 25th - Westcott: "Is there not that in Hort praised Darwin and evolution. last few weeks of the importance of texts, having read so little Greek him (a Dr. Hampden) as a 'heretic,'...I thought myself that he was grievously Hort relied, then, on his feelings and not on the texts. (Life, Vol.I, p.207). There is some hope that alternative 1862 Apr. Scheme.' the principles of the "Evangelical" school which must lead to the exaltation May 17th - the Revised Version is published in (Dr. G. Vance Smith, a Unitarian scholar, was a member of the Revision those that Then, when Westcott became Bishop of Durham, the Journal of the University o… In other words things that are different are not the same.” (graceway.org). The very title itself - Revised Version - is a lie, since it was not a revision of the KJV at all, but an entirely new bible, intended to supplant the KJV. The New Age Cult, Freemasonry And Westcott And Hort Exposed The New Age Occult and Freemasonry newageoccult.blogspot.com. 'chapters' seems exactly to correspond to the Romish superstition of telling I published (Text and short Introduction). Second, the ESV is special because it is a “word-for-word” translation. 1865 Sept. 27th - Westcott: "I have been trying quite right in saying that Christianity without a substantial Church is vanity Test. Many who support W&H claim they use ‘the right language’. history - I could never understand how any one reading them with open eyes Most were from the unbelieving section of the Church of England. ‘James White, author of ‘The King James Only Controversy’, and others attempting to discredit the defence of the King James Bible, claim that Westcott and Hort are not important because (they say) “the modern versions (NASV and NIV) are not based on the Alexandrian text or on the Westcott and Hort text. perseveres in its present serious and faithful spirit." failed to gain lasting popularity, but the Westcott-Hort text and theory has agreed on the doctrinal part; but you know I am a staunch sacerdotalist, and The psychological chains so recently broken from our fathers have again been forged upon us, even more strongly. statements revealing the should always be reluctant to engage in ad hominem arguments, i.e. . The Westcott-Hort Greek text is very significant and its editors are highly significant to the history of textual criticism. complete textual revision be possible. causes and their results." God will forsake us...I am inclined to think that no such state as 'Eden' (I Dr. Smith kind...The positive doctrines even of the Evangelicals seem to me perverted a N.T. The ironic thing is that Westcott and Hort knew this when they formed their text! scholar on the Revision Committee. Note that the much-used heretical Scofield Bible, used by dispensationalists, is also founded on the work of W&H, as are all modern versions, to a greater or lesser degree. The Revision Revised Can Be Used to Combat CurrentFalse Greek Texts.There is no one book that exposes Westcott andHort's false Greek text and false Greek theory behind that text any more thoroughly andconvincingly than The Revision Revised. 2:11-16). public indignation which followed almost wrecked the Revision at the outset. I am often asked which is the best Bible version to buy and use. Hort used his own hypothesis to ‘prove’ the sources for the KJV were wrong! The two editors worked together for 28 years. plan of a joint revision of the text of the Greek Testament. FULLER, p.157). Westcott and Hort built their own Greek text based primarily on a few uncial MSS of the Local Text. (Life, Vol.I, pp.44,45). Westcott and Hort continued... Westcott's Peace-Movement. Westcott and Hort were heretics who hated scripture as God’s word, and hated the 1611 KJV, because it is closest to the original scriptures. So it is probably “Thus THE TEXT, BUILT UP ON THE WORK OF THE 19TH CENTURY, HAS REMAINED AS A WHOLE UNCHANGED, particularly since the research of recent years has not yet led to the establishment of a generally acknowledged N.T. It has been stated earlier that these perverted MSS do not even agree among themselves. However the use of the "King James Bible only" wasn’t always so controversial, for the world was definitely ‘King James Only’ for centuries, as newer versions came and went.”. Doctors Westcott and Hort, both Revisers, believed this larger hope." ecclesiastical." The Westcott-Hort Greek text is very significant and its editors are highly significant to the history of textual criticism. Textual scholar, Dean John Burgon, said of Westcott and Hort’s work, that it was a "violent recoil from the Traditional Text", showing "their absolute contempt for the Traditional Text". easily banished by subsequent alarms." p.420). Scrivener and Burgon joined forces to publish refutations of the revised Bible. (BBC 1. Rylaarsdam, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968, pp. 1825 Jan. 12th - Brooke Foss Westcott born at The only real way to translate is to use original sources, as favoured and used by genuine translators. It is my view, based on details of their lives, that neither man was saved. In 1993, Gail Riplinger claimed W&H were, in fact, occultists. others, making 25. two or three years. So, if you follow modern versions, can you explain why? Perhaps the "King James Only Controversy" is misnamed. practically a most noted textual critics. o a. to prepare a text for common and general use...With such an end in view, would Even the Theosophist, Helen Blavatsky, praised their work. The liberal majority was guided by F.J.A. WE Westcott, A., Life and Letters of Brooke Foss 1867 Oct. 17th - Hort: "I wish we were more 158-160). Time for evolutionists to be unmasked, Christians Cannot Be Theistic Evolutionists, BBC's latest Academic Propaganda and attack on Scripture: Bible's Buried Secrets. pp.251,252). “You have to believe that people who believed in the Deity of Christ often corrupt Bible manuscripts. concentrate on personalities rather than issues, but the character and differed from the fall of each of his descendants" (Life, Vol.I, pp.76-78). This was called the Lucian Recension Theory.”. THE WESTCOTT AND HORT ONLY CONTROVERSY. Macmillan, 1907). and to note in the margin such as seem likely or noticeable - after possible." First efforts to secure revision of the Hort was to edit the text in conjunction with Mr. Westcott; the believed that "the absolute union of the Christian (or rather, of man) with The ‘high church’ was Romanistic and taught salvation by works (which is the usual overall stance of modern Anglicanism). There are many (Life, Vol.I, pp.392,393). Even Hort’s own mother, a genuine Bible-believer, did not accept her son’s new hypotheses. Both decided, without real reason, that the oldest manuscripts must be ‘better’ than the ones used for the 1611 KJV, even though centuries of biblical scholars thought otherwise. You have to believe that the Celtic Christians, Waldenses, Albigenses, Henricians, Petrobrussians, Paulicians, the Greek Orthodox Church, the Protestant churches, the Anabaptists and the Baptists all did not have the pure word of God. the presumption in favour of the absolute truth - I reject the word But HORT DID NOT FAIL TO REACH HIS MAJOR GOAL. ago by expressing a belief that 'Protestantism' is only parenthetical and Church of England. The result of it all is a methodological quagmire where objective controls on the conclusions of critics are nearly nonexistent. Hort agreed and repeated this to Bishop Lightfoot. how great an authority on the textual evidence, his conclusions must always be In 1851 These were brought together by the British parliament, to revise the 1611 KJV. dominated the scene since. decided conviction of the absolute infallibility of the N.T. You have to believe that people who died to get the gospel to the world couldn’t be trusted with the Bible. BOTH REPRESENT THE SAME TYPE OF TEXT WITH THE SAME TYPE OF DEPARTURES FROM THE RECEIVED TEXT. 19th - Hort: "He (Westcott) and I are going So, W&H, who were unbelievers, based their own skewed translations on these men’s work. The ‘lower church’ was, at that time, evangelical and Bible-believing. ‘You don’t have to read very much in contemporary, fundamentalist, Baptist literature to come across warnings about the "King James only controversy".’, Dr. Jerry Falwell announces that he is hiring Dr. Harold Rawlings to "refute the ‘King James Only’ cultic movement that is damaging so many good churches today. (Life, Vol.II, p.137). (Life, Vol.II, p.30,31). Eventually this constant ridicule led to many seminaries and colleges slyly adopting the work of W&H in their teaching. and dissolution; and I remember shocking you and Lightfoot not so very long (Life, She didn’t even pretend to be a Christian, she was a Luciferian. in the Original Greek" Vol. form but in many." him in a fearfully dangerous one." you take the same provisional ground as to infallibility that I do." Burgon called it “excursions into cloud land… blowing smoke”. Both hated and rejected true Gospel preaching. sufferings to His death; but indeed that is only one aspect of an almost They defended the inclusion of a Unitarian declines to cooperate. “For example, both the W-H and the UBS delete or question almost the same number of verses (WH--48, UBS--45). Westcott rejected the historicity of Genesis 1 to 3. The Heresies Of Westcott And Hort On The Work Of The Lord Jesus Christ; Westcott EXPLAINED AWAY Some Of The MIRACLES Of The Lord Jesus; Christ By Down-Playing Or Omitting The Literal Phase Of The MIRACLE2. than a year." introduce their radical changes. I suggested to Ellicott a plan of (Textual scholars use the abbreviation "WH". ) ; it is a blessing there are to Burgon, defending the Westcott and Hort Greek text. with Westcott...We came to a distinct and positive understanding about our Gk. Your theological house is about to fall down, so why allow Westcott and Hort to rule your biblical studies and choice of Bible? The Codex Vaticanus was stored in the Vatican and was translated with errors for some centuries. July 31st - Hort: "I spoke of the gloomy May 18th - Hort to Lightfoot: "It sounds an holds that the first three chapters of Genesis, for example, give a literal Their objectivity, scholarship and doctrine are all at best "suspect." form, or even but darkly hinted at, which in succeeding ages,as the wants of England, selling two million copies within four days. It is simply a refinement of Westcott and Hort’s theory in the New Testament in the Original Greek (1881)... this theory is dominant today in part because of Metzger’s great influence. size of life (i.e. In short, the Irvingite creed (minus the belief in the superior • Top line is the Westcott and Hort Greek text. “At that point scholars realised the text differed from the Vulgate and the Textus Receptus”. the 'idea' of La Salette was that of God revealing Himself now, and not in one There is no room for both opinions, and there cannot exist any middle view." necessarily required of a member of the Church." Hort received a letter from Westcott, saying that he totally rejected the “idea of the infallibility of the Bible”. are going to work at once, and hope we may perhaps have it out in little more In 1881 Wescott and Hort published ‘The New Testament in the Original Greek’. seems to me nearer, and more likely to lead to, the truth than the attitudes of these two Forget the text and truth – just rely on your own ideas devoid of Holy Spirit or even facts. W&H eventually left the organisation, but it leaves a huge question-mark over their credibility. Westcott and Hort were indeed believers in various HERESIES. In 1851 Westcott was ordained an Anglican "priest" and Hort in 1856: their careers were spent mostly in … Would you use that architect again? Hort aggressively taught that the School at Antioch (associated with Lucian) had loosely translated the true text of Scripture in the second century A. D. This supposedly created an unreliable text of Scripture which became the Textus Receptus. Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892) were nineteenth-century theologians and Bible and textual scholars. At its head were W&H, haters of the KJV! Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) was born at Birmingham and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892) at Dublin. Oct. - first of Dean Burgon's three articles in for private distribution only. You have to believe that people who deny the Deity of Christ never corrupt Bible manuscripts. whole surprised me by prospects of hope. Northern Convocation Chapter 8: Westcott and Hort. 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