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| Bengel's Gnomon was widely used - often quoted by Lenski. Bengel was the first to make up his own rules for deciding on the merits of a reading. |
Part II - "Resist the Beginnings!" - As Pfotenhauer Wrote
Count Tischendorf gloried in his finds - first Sinaiticus - which he named Aleph - and Vaticanus which he designated as B. Thus the two codices were the first in a row of witnesses listed in a Greek New Testament.
I believe Tischendorf's writing gives him away as a fraud, a glory seeker. I will offer examples in the Second Edition of The Bible Book.
Tischendorf's confabulations set up Westcott and Hort to turn the glory mongering into a rejection of the best text - the Majority Text (aka the Byzantine Text or Traditional Text), all of the Majority Text in agreement (with minor details that we expect in all printed or copied works).
To pull this off, Westcott and Hort spent 10 years cajoling the Revision of the KJV committee into adopting their unpublished and secretive Greek New Testament. They did not expose their wild ideas and bad text to the scholarly world but secretly fed parts to those who were working on a given section of the New Testament.
Westcott-Hort released their own Greek New Testament (I have a copy) the moment the English revision of the KJV came out. The Revision followed the Wescott-Hort text, which they printed without any explanatory notes about the verses, phrases, and words omitted.
Although widespread rejection accompanied the KJV Revision and the W-H Greek text, it was clear they violated the instructions - To Leave the Greek Text Alone! They got away with it, and the race downhill could only gain momentum.
Seventy years later, the Revised Standard Version came out with the Virgin Birth of Christ removed from Isaiah 7.
Cool people favored the new translations, which multiplied like rabbits left alone in a big cage. Biblical apostasy gave the theologians to make up whatever they wanted while the other fakes said, "We are only building on the brilliant work of Bultmann, Graf-Welhausen, and so many great scholars. They have set us free from the primitive thinking of the ancient times and the simpletons who still think that way."
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