Two Famous Downgrades in Your Modern Paraphrases - NIV, ESV, RSV, NRSV -Three Out of Four Bibles Owned by the Marxist National Council of Churches!

 

Dean Burgon defended the Majority Text; he had first-hand experiences with manuscripts.

I want to touch upon Burgon's defense of the ending of Mark and the Woman Taken in Adultery (John 8).

Both are easily studied in English, as Dean Burgon has shown. Mark's ending was already in the Vulgate and continued until the magical Codices Aleph and B (Sinaiticus and Vaticanus) - both promoted by Tischendorf - were used to remove Mark 16:9-20 from the Gospels. Mark 16:1-20 was in all the manuscripts that survived, so the apostolic origin is clear. But sadly, for the modern critics, Aleph and B, for their 1500 years, had no children, no descendants, no proof Mark ended abruptly. 

This does not enter the typical believer's mind - but listen up. For the rationalists (modernists, apostates) the short ending eliminated the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, especially since they imagined Mark was first and Matthew/Luke used Mark as their outline, with the never-proven Q providing the other material. 

The apostates consider John's Gospel to be very late (?), Gnostic (!), and mythical (!?), so that finished the Resurrection for good.

I am quite sure that Kurt Aland's precious Greek New Testament (now used at all seminaries and colleges, with a few exceptions) simply continued the ruse started by Tischendorf, which was greatly desired already by the rationalists. Aland depended on Westcott and Hort, while Westcott and Hort needed Tischendorf, who relished lies, fraud, and the Church of Rome.

Or - one might say, the Westcott-Hort-Nestle-Aland efforts satisfied the assumptions of the rationalists from Halle and other rationalistic hotspots.

The woman taken in adultery - John 8 - is also found in early witnesses. It is also not found in some. The reason may well be that some early copyists found the story at odds with the Sixth Commandment and at variance with Jesus' teaching. That is more of a touchy-feely criticism, not a factual one. 

As I have written before, falsification is best achieved by removing text, not by adding text. John 8 - without the woman caught in adultery - is abrupt.

Hills has more material, which I am using in the second edition of The Bible Book.

 Pieter Brueghel II, Christ and the Woman Caught in Adultery

So Much Fun Today

 

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One reader really likes the Icha-peek post, the last one before bedtime. I had a great day today, enjoying beautiful sunshine and working on The Bible Book.

I decided I would work on the book primarily and subordinate everything else. The Military Gardening Group gathered late in the day to enjoy the garden in almost 70 degree weather. We had Italian chicken and Southern biscuits. 

Our painter neighbor came by and I gave him one Queen Elizabeth rose and two Enchanted Peace roses for his wife. She loves roses.

I worked on adding more quotations about appreciating the KJV, which I posted below. Cue superfluous link for the KJV quotations, just to increase views.

I was very impressed with the Trinitarian Bible Society material, so I joined. I will be posting their eloquent defense of the KJV. 

Now I am going to listen to Letis, who studied under Edward Freer Hills.

 Theodore P. Letis

Luther Anticipated the Observations of Theodore P. Letis

 

One advantage of publishing "the blog nobody reads" is hearing from people who challenge that claim. They offer me insights from their own situation and they provide sources for more research. Recently, two authors were mentioned by readers. I wrote about the first - Laurence Vance - and his books on the King James Version. 

I knew a little about Letis, but a reminder from another reader caused me to dig through my pile of KJV books and uncover The Ecclesiastical Text, by Theodore P. Letis, $20. 

 Letis - Edward Freer Hills' Contribution to the revival of the Ecclesistical Text, $900.

I was already a reader of Edward Freer Hills' work, so this is an important book, given Letis' ability to summarize research.