Upon re-reading my responses in this thread, I think another important note needs to be added to my post above, # 47, of February 20, 2008:
I think it is important to make another note of Colines 1534 edition, as it applies for defenders of the Authorized Version, as it would very much fall into the schematic of today's critical text. We are often given the revisionist position that our Protestant father's, such as John Calvin, had no other option but to use the Received Text. That simply isn't true as I've demonstrated above, on the contrary, they abandoned a text that would later become the
fountainhead of that recension.
Beza said of this text:
"I have found many things in it emended on sheer conjecture by someone who was in other respect most learned in the Greek tongue." Theodore Beza, Responsio as translated by THL Parker in Calvin's Commentaries, 1971 p 101
Coline's text, after Beza, was never used by Protestants again and fell into obscurity, it didn't come to the forefront again until Mill and Griesbach, which would be the father's of the critical text. Turner says of this notable and important fact:
"It [Coline's text] had no influence on the history of the text, and it was first by Mill and then again by Greisbach that it was rescued from oblivion." C.H. Turner, Early Printed Editions of the Greek Testament, p 25
Anyway, I thought this was an important point to bring out as I didn't know if readers were aware of what Coline's text even was.