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Sometimes I read the same topic several times in one book then repeat the topic in similar books.
The New Testament text is the object of many kinds of attacks.
The basic divide is this. The Traditional Text has dominated since the earliest days, another reason for calling it the Majority Text, the one used for the Luther Bible and the KJV.
There is also a corrupted text, represented by Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, though they disagree on many readings.
Hort loathed the Traditional Text and thought "Mary religion" was better than "Jesus religion." Hort and his buddy Wescott worked with the KJV Revision team to replace the Traditional Text with their own, even though that was against their orders in making a slight revision of the KJV in English.
Although most people rejected their nefarious work at the time, the Wescott Hort version started catching on in the 1930s and is now called by the Nestle-Aland Greek NT merchants - "The Standard Version." But the standard version is truly a book that came down from heaven their study.
So the Greek New Testament chosen comes down to the Majority Text, a vast number of manuscripts in agreement, or one derived from and preserved by the Vatican.
Vatican - RSV, NIV, ESV, TEV, NASB, etc
Majority - Waldensian, Luther's Bible, the KJV
