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The text of Estienne's third and fourth edition (1550, 1551) was used by William Whittingham and his colleagues as the basis for the English version of the New Testament included in the Geneva Bible, which was the most widely used English translation prior to the appearance of the King James version (1611). Theodore Beza also used the text of Estienne 1550-51 as the basis for his own influential editions (see Beza 1565), and it generally came to be regarded as a standard text, especially in England. It became the most commonly used text for the purpose of manuscript collation and exegetical commentary, and has been reprinted hundreds of times in various forms, up to the present day (see Newberry 1877, Berry 1897, Scrivener and Nestle 1906). Literal translations are
given in Newberry 1877, Berry 1897, and Young's Literal Translation.

For a biography of Estienne, see Elizabeth Armstrong, Robert Estienne, Royal Printer: an Historical Study of the Elder Stephanus (Cambridge, 1954).

 

So there seems to be evidence that works such as ther Latin Vulgate at times were just a important a textual source as the Eramus Greek NT?

 

So that was the primary Greek text used before the TR?

 

No. It is a TR. They all descend from Erasmus. There are Multiple TR editions by Erasmus, Stephanus, Beza, Elzevir and even Scrivener. They are all slightly varing editions of the "Textus Receptus".

 

On a very few occasions, yes, that is true.

 

Yeah, the TR has been revised over 30 times!

 

You would not happen to know a resource for this information?

 

So which TR text would then be the perfect and inerrant copy of the Original text?

 

Which if admitted refutes KJVO!

 

So which edition would be the perfect one?

 

I ask KJVOs that question all the time.

 

Same ones that say, in so many words, that God does not condone incest.(Not arguing that stuff in this thread.)

 

Many valid ones, from the Geneva thru the ESV. Perhaps you can tell me which one says the marka the beast is symbolic.

 

Every get an answer?

 

True!

 

None that make sense or are actual answers.