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Old 09-05-2007, 07:51 AM
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Steve,

This is a good book. I may have to get it for my shelf. The auther makes a great point in relation to:

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What was said above by Paul is right, that the texts the Reformation and post Reformation men used -- the TR editions and the Geneva, AV, etc -- are those God provided for His people. They were aware of the old Egyptian/Roman Catholic mss, and rejected them.
Check this quote out. Pretty amazing thought. It's from the bottom of page 171. That whole section is actually interesting to read on foreign language versions:


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Unquestionably, the leaders of the Reformation German, French and English were convinced that the Received Text was the genuine New Testament, not only by its own irresistible history and internal evidence, but also because it matched with the Received Text which in Waldensian form came down from the days of the apostles.
http://www.biblebelievers.net/BibleV...rv6.htm#XXVIII
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