The Textus Receptus most strongly resembles the Byzantine text-type, as its editor Erasmus mainly based his work on manuscripts following the Byzantine text. However Erasmus sometimes followed the Minuscule 1 (part … See more

John Mill (1645–1707) collated textual variants from 82 Greek manuscripts. In his Novum Testamentum Graecum, cum lectionibus variantibus MSS (Oxford 1707) he reprinted the unchanged text of the Editio Regia, but in the index he enumerated 30,000 … See more

Frederick von Nolan, a 19th-century historian and Greek and Latin scholar, spent 28 years attempting to trace the Textus Receptus to apostolic origins. He was an ardent … See more

The Textus Receptus contains many well known variants, such as the Comma Johanneum, Confession of the Ethiopian eunuch, the long ending of Mark, the Pericope Adulterae, … See more

Erasmus
Erasmus had been working for years making philological notes on scriptural and patristic texts. In 1512, he began his work on the Latin New … See more

The Textus Receptus was mainly established on a basis of manuscripts of the Byzantine text-type, also called 'Majority text', and … See more

Although the Textus Receptus tradition is very uniform, there are some variants between the different editions of the Textus Receptus. There are around 283 differences between the editions of Scrivener and Stephanus, while the number is 190 … See more