Dean Burgon is one of the few churchmen to see through the fallacies behind the modernist, anti-Christian scholars who rejected the evidence in favor of their dreams and ambitions.
He is not easy to read, since he fires broadsides in every paragraph. After combing through the literature on the subject - including several bumper stickers - I can consolidate the arguments with some ease.
The A Team is agnostic, atheist Westcott and Hort, champions of Tischendorf, who "discovered" the fraudulent Codex Sinaiticus and promoted the fake Codex Vaticanus. They failed on a global scale to issue a successful Revised KJV in the 19th century, but their successors raised their clumsy efforts from the dead and established these three phonies as the ultimate authorities on the Greek New Testament.
The B Team is Burgon, a remarkable scholar who blasted away at the entire scheme to substitute the Tischendorf-Westcott-Hort departure from the Majority (Traditional, Byzantine) text of the KJV.
Cutting off Mark 16 at the end of verse 8 is the work of the A Team. Burgon noted that the A Team's idea means the other codices are wrong, along with the very early evidence of Mark 16 ending at verse 20. Moreover, Codex Aleph (Sinaiticus) and Codex B (Vaticanus) had no children. The Majority Text has 5,000 or more! The vastness of the Majority Text evidence is considered a weakness by the A Team. (Pause for laughter to fade away)
Matt the Fatt Harrison, Concordia Publishing House, Mirthless Mark Schroeder, and ELCA all side with the A Team. Moreover, they mock the King James Version while holding the deceptions of the Tischendorf-Westcott-Hort cell immune from all criticism.
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The complete title is The King James Version: Apostolic Texts, Precise Translation versus Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translations.
The print version is available here, but can be obtained free from me.
