TR...'whoops'!

Rodney J. Decker rdecker at bbc.edu
Thu Dec 10 06:35:55 EST 1998


>the publication by Desiderius Erasmus of the Greek New Testament, soon
> revised by Robert Stephanus and published in 1550 as the "Textus Receptus".

Perhaps that wasn't intended as a technical use of the term "TR", but it
was Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevir (from Leiden) who published the Greek
testament containing the boast that:
     "Textum ergo habes, nunc ab omnibus receptum: in quo nihil immutatum
aut corruptum damus"

from which the nickname "Textus Receptus" arose. And that was in the 1633
edition, not 1550.

Rod



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