This Is Why the Seminex Style Mark Commentary Is Devoted to Codex Vaticanus.Apostates Hate Erasmus for His Scholarship

 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.

 

ELCA-trained Jesuit Jack Kilcrease shamed Bethany by lecturing there. He is not a real Jesuit, but he is not a real Lutheran either.

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ELDONA Church Says - Don't Ask the Pastor. Sullivan Tapes Linked, Then Banished

 

 Pastors Sullivan and Rydecki had the wits to leave the ELDONA cult.

I was not shocked to learn that the Right Reverend Bishop Jim Heiser was making a move on St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Rogers, Arkansas.

The first indication was the church website linking Pastor Sullivan's Ask the Pastor video tapes. That link appeared on the front page. St. Mark's pastor, a late convert to Justification by Faith, urged people to watch the Ask the Pastor tapes to learn more about ELDONA.

Now the Rogers congregation is officially affiliated with ELDONA, and the link to the tapes has been removed.

Pastor Sullivan left ELDONA, as did Pastor Rydecki and one other pastor. Heiser's papal and dictatorial ways rose to the level of the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, SJ. The rubrics below have been added in red, as expected among the exalted.

The bishop’s responsibility of “oversight” and “administration” “encompasses all that has been associated with this [episcopal] polity in the historic sense,” as stated in the Bishop’s Episcopal Address, including “obliging the parsons and deacons of their superintendency to conform in all things according to our ‘Church Order.’” 

It is commonly noted that those who make a trifle of the most important things are also harder than diamonds about trivia - like the brittle demands of Bishop Heiser. For example, ELDONA, like the other Lutheran sects, loves every translation except the best one - the King James Version. Sure enough, St. Mark's in Rogers follows the same pattern, listing the KJV but also several very obscure translations, a natural path to confusion and loss of memory work in Bible. Claiming they are all OK is the same as repudiating the clarity and efficacy of the Scriptures.

ELDONA seems to loathe the KJV and embrace the horrid ESV and other money-makers among the Objective Justification sects.

Here is another indication of the papal errors of ELDONA and St. Mark's in Rogers. The Rogers church calendar includes Roman Catholic holy days, such as the Immaculate Concept of Mary, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and the Assumption of Mary.

I consider these calendar dates, which are posted on the St. Mark website, toxic relics of study at Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne and St. Louis. Those faculties promote Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox oddities. The numbskull graduates, like Jay Webber and Jim Heiser, are as cozy with Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy as they are with smells, bells, and magnificent Almy robes.

Bishop Randy DeJaynes, welcomed by Kincaid Smith and Jay Webber (ELS), was really the start of ELDONA. "If he can be a bishop, I can be the pope!" - Heiser must have thought, much like CFW Walther and the Repristination - Stephan, Walther - Press.