Editing Textus Receptus (section)

{{Short description|Greek critical text of the New Testament}}
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The '''{{Lang|la|Textus Receptus}}''' ([[Latin]] for 'received text') is the succession of printed Greek [[New Testament]] texts starting with [[Erasmus]]' ''[[Novum Instrumentum omne]]'' (1516) and including the editions of [[Robert Estienne|Stephanus]], [[Theodore Beza|Beza]], the [[House of Elzevir|Elzevir]] house, [[Simon de Colines|Colinaeus]] and [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|Scrivener]].<ref>"In time, Erasmus' text became known as the "''Textus receptus''" (largely through a marketing strategy employed by the Elzevir publishers in 1633) - the "received text" implying verbal inspiration." {{cite thesis |last1=Eisener |first1=Wendell L. |title=Matthew's Beatitudes in English: a comparative study in the history of translation |date=1999 |publisher=Acadia University |url=https://scholar.acadiau.ca/islandora/object/theses%3A2918 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Epp |first=Eldon Jay |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJMMEAAAQBAJ&dq=Colin%C3%A6us+Textus+Receptus&pg=PA372 |title=Perspectives on New Testament Textual Criticism, Volume 2: Collected Essays, 2006–2017 |date=2020-11-30 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-44233-7 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Robertson |first=A. T. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=weuPBAAAQBAJ&dq=Scrivener+Textus+Receptus+1881&pg=PA23 |title=An Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament |date=2014-08-01 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-4982-0089-9 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite book |last1=Doble |first1=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAuJBAAAQBAJ&dq=colinaeus+textus+receptus&pg=PA38 |title=Texts and Traditions: Essays in Honour of J. Keith Elliott |last2=Kloha |first2=Jeffrey |date=2014-07-24 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-27393-1 |language=en}}</ref> 

Erasmus' Latin/Greek New Testament editions and annotations were a major influence for the original German [[Luther_Bible#"September_Bible"_New_Testament_(1522)|Luther Bible]] and the translations of the New Testament into English by [[William Tyndale]]. Subsequent ''Textus Receptus'' editions constituted the main Greek translation-base for the [[King James Version]], the Spanish [[Reina-Valera]] translation, the Czech [[Bible of Kralice]], the Portuguese [[Almeida Recebida]], the Dutch [[Statenvertaling]], the Russian [[Russian Synodal Bible|Synodal Bible]] and many other [[Protestant reformation|Reformation-era]] New Testament translations throughout Western, Northern and Central Europe.

Despite being viewed as an inferior form of the text of the New Testament by many modern textual critics, some [[Conservative Christianity|Conservative Christians]] still view it as the most authentic text of the New Testament. This view is generally based upon a theological doctrine of the supernatural providential preservation of scripture.<ref name=":3" />