Chapter 10, Section 4: Rules governing the Westcott-Hort Revision Committee
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Now that we have had some insight into how the translators of the KJV went about their work, let us turn our attention to the work of Westcott and Hort and their Revision Committee of 1871 to 1881. The differences between the Committees and how
Chapter 10, Section 3: Rules governing the KJV Committee
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To segue from our previous installment, we left off by stating that we shall now scrutinize the methods of translating used by Westcott & Hort’s Revision Committee as compared with the practices employed by the King James Version Committee.
Here is how the KJV
Chapter 10, Section 2: Stacking the Revision Committee
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In our previous section in this series, we closed with this: “The theory of Westcott and Hort was merely a pretense of scholarship in order to give Westcott and Hort some alleged basis for abandoning the Received Text and for replacing it with their own
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This is chapter 10 in the series which I have entitled Which Bible, Which Version? We are in a sub-series (chapters 7-12) which we could call: Westcott and Hort, Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing.
For those perhaps who are just now finding this
Chapter 9, Section 4: Hort’s Theory: Second premise fails
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Note to readers: We are necessarily picking up the thread in the middle of a study and so we recommend readers to read the previous section(s) for context. As always, all emphases and comments within [brackets] are mine unless otherwise noted.
The second basic
Chapter 9, Section 3: Hort’s Theory: First premise proven false
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Note to readers: We are necessarily picking up the thread in the middle of a study and so we recommend readers to read the previous section(s) for context. As always, all emphases and comments within [brackets] is mine unless otherwise noted.
Continuing from Section
Chapter 9, Section 2: Hort pulls a fast one on the Revision Committee
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The first major premise of the Westcott-Hort theory is that the New Testament is to be treated like any other book.
This would allow Hort
Chapter 9, Section 1: Introduction to the theory of Westcott & Hort
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We are now in the middle of our series entitled Which Bible, Which Version? Yes, that means we have a long way to go in making our case. These essays are based upon a 20-lecture series originally presented to our Stone Kingdom Fellowship audiences
Chapter 8, Section 5: Dethroning the Textus Receptus
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We pick up from where we left off in Chapter 8, Section 4.
We recall from a previous section how Westcott was telling his fiancée how he hoped that he could be a part of aiding the truth in the battle over the inspiration of
