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| The story behind the Left's loathing of Erasmus - link here. |
AND ERASMUS’ OPINION OF CODEX VATICANUS?
And what does Erasmus himself say about Vaticanus. For this we turn to the imminent Erasmian scholar H.J. de Jonge:
It should be pointed out here in passing, that certain Greek manuscripts of the New Testament have been corrected in agreement with those of the Latin Christians. This was done at the time of the reunion of the Greeks and the Roman church. This union was confirmed in writing in the so-called Golden Bull. It was thought that this (sc. the adaptation of the Greek biblical manuscripts to the Latin) would contribute to the strengthening of unity. We too once came across a manuscript of this nature, and it is said that such a manuscript is still preserved in the papal library (…) written in majuscule characters.
Erasmian scholar H. J. De Jonge explains the meaning of this quote from Erasmus:
The manuscipt to which Erasmus refers at the end of this passage is the Codex Vaticanus par excellence, now Gr 1209, designated as B. Erasmus regarded the text of this codex as influenced by the Vulgate and therefore inferior.
So the gigantic, gaseous Gospel of Mark commentary from the Neo-Seminex Concordia Publishing House is based on Codex Vaticanus, which is a late combo of Greek using the Latin (obviously a later NT) as the basis. In other words, to make everyone happy, the real basis for Vaticanus is centuries older and worser than the Apostolic Greek New Testament, or Traditional Text.
We are at a terrible time in Protestantism, when the Reformation is turned upside-down in favor of the papacy. People can see it everywhere, if they only look. The "conservative" Lutherans want to ape the Roman Catholic priests, bishops, Jesuits, and pope. They want to sinuflect all the way to Rome.
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| ELCA-trained Jesuit Jack Kilcrease shamed Bethany by lecturing there. He is not a real Jesuit, but he is not a real Lutheran either. |
