NON-COPYRIGHT PUBLIC DOMAIN Full Accentuated Greek Received Text New Testament

NON-COPYRIGHT, PUBLIC DOMAIN, full accentuated Greek Received Text New Testament, . doc format usable in Microsoft Word etc, Adobe .pdf format, and simple .txt format usable in the special Scribe reader and editor (see below).

This is a Christian Hospitality edition of the Stephanus 1550 Textus Receptus. The text employs a Greek font with breathings, accents and diacritical marks, and is editable and usable in Microsoft Word 97 or equivalent word-processing software.

Since it has been difficult till recently even to find a free Greek font with breathings, accents and marks on the web, let alone a full Textus Receptus in the standard Greek format, including accents and marks, this text should be of service to all Bible students.

The text is provided in two forms which should be viewable and printable without a Greek font installed on your PC: in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format (Greek text can be copied and pasted as a graphic image - see further on for copying editable text), and also in Word Document, usable in Microsoft Word etc. (you need the Greek Biblos font to process the text in this format, and to copy and paste editable text from the Adobe Acrobat .pdf document). If you encounter any problems with the Greek, try installing the font anyway.

The third form is a simple .txt file readable and editable in the special Scribe reader and editor downloadable from the Biblos font page (see below).

To get information on how to install the font, go to the font link below. Please note: when using the Greek font in Microsoft Word 97+ you must uncheck 4 of the word-editing functions, namely in the "Tools" menu, "AutoCorrect" option, on the first tab labeled "AutoCorrect" uncheck the box "Capitalize first letter of sentences" as well as the box labeled "Replace text as you type", and on the tab labeled "Autoformat as you type" uncheck the box labeled ""Straight quotes" with "smart quotes"" and the box labeled "Match parentheses", otherwise some accents may not work properly.

For typing the Biblos Greek font use the English (British) keyboard layout by preference - with other keyboard layouts, and depending on the type of keyboard you have, you might have to experiment to find which keys produce which Greek characters.

The punctuation of this edition of the Textus Receptus needs rationalization, and no doubt there will be errors. Keep posted for updates. The basic Stephanus 1550 Greek text is from the Online Bible (a useful resource), but reset with the Biblos font, and the accenting from Bible Works, but the accenting has had to be corrected on average at least 5 or 6 instances per chapter and that is not counting the editing needed to bring it in line with the punctuation of the original Stephanus. The editing is not yet complete. Any feedback will be appreciated.

Please feel free to use without restriction - you don't need to link here if you don't want to. You can post the texts on your own site etc. as desired.

For an explanation of WHY

it is important to use the correct Greek text of the New Testament the Textus Receptus or Received Text, versions of the Bible, read this tract from Present Truth, and jump to the note below. On the finer points of textual inerrancy it should be noted that the Biblical emphasis is on the absolute literal inerrancy of the Scriptural text. The theory that the Majority Byzantine Greek Text (preserved by the Orthodox Greek Church in the Middle Ages) represents the true Scriptural text must be rejected.

The true inspired verbally and literally inerrant text is the Stephanus 1550 Textus Receptus, which follows the 4th and 5th editions of Erasmus. This is the Greek text preserved by the Waldensians through the Middle Ages. It was the Waldensian Church of the Alpine Valleys which was the true Church of the Faithful in the Dark Ages, not the Greek Orthodox Church which fell into image-worship and Mariolatry. The Greek Orthodox Church, nevertheless, preserved the Greek Text ALMOST perfectly, BUT NOT QUITE (e.g. the omission of I John 5. 7 Three Heavenly Witnesses). The Waldensians preserved it PERFECT, and it was their text which Erasmus and the early Reformers circulated in printed form, Erasmus being the scholar whom God raised up to search out and publish the accurate form of this text, and Stephanus (Estienne) of Paris the printer raised up by God to publish it far and wide in printed form. (Please note it is the TEXT of the Stephanus 1550 that is literally inerrant, being preserved and reprinted amongst God's Spirit-filled children after the Reformation, not that particular printing, with any typographical errors it may have contained.)

Jesus Himself guaranteed to us that not one "jot or tittle" (i.e. not one letter or even part of a letter) would pass or fail (= go out of existence) from the Law (Mt. 5. 18, Lk. 16. 17), and that His Words (= all of them and complete) would never pass away (Mt. 24. 35, Mk. 13. 31, Lk. 21. 33), and we must believe this absolutely, being able, as believers, to identify and hold to this perfectly preserved, literally inerrant text.

For a collation of later and other forms of the Textus Receptus (Beza, Elzevir etc.) with Stephanus 1550, download here a copy of two of the many, superb, studies of H. Hoskier (these forming Appendix B and Appendix C of his "Full Account and Collation of the Greek Cursive Codex Evangelium 604" London, 1890).

Wednesday, September 04, 2002

NOTE ON THE MARKED ALTERATIONS IN CODEX VATICANUS

The Vatican's own Bible Text (called Codex Vaticanus) proves the Received Text is RIGHT! For many years now modernistic scholars have used an old manuscript in the Vatican, called Codex Vaticanus, to translate their supposedly improved and updated Bible versions (like the New International Version). The Vatican has pushed this idea relentlessly. They hate the old Protestant versions of the Bible, like the King James, because they were not based on their Codex Vaticanus but on the authentic Early Church Texts (the Textus Receptus or Received Text) recovered by Erasmus at the time of the Reformation. Erasmus knew of the existence of Codex Vaticanus but rejected it as worthless.

The authentic texts came ultimately from the Greek Orthodox Eastern Church, where the Greeks (who ought to have known!) always considered their ancient Greek texts of the Bible correct, and rubbished the Vatican's text as a fake. There are very important differences between the King James type of text, based on these authentic Greek texts, and the modern versions based on Codex Vaticanus. For example, one of the parts of the King James which modernistic scholars love to attack is I John 5. 7, where the King James and the old Greek texts copied by Erasmus read "There are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one". This text is very important because it proves Jesus Christ is God. The modernistic theologians attack this because it is not in their fake Vatican text and they claim it was INVENTED BY ERASMUS! What a slur on the great Reformation scholar Erasmus, let alone the blasphemy of God's Word! They claim that the authentic Greek texts were later productions, concocted by Greek monks and Erasmus, and they love to boast that their Codex Vaticanus is the earliest text of all. On a point of fact this allegation can be proved to be groundless - in the case of I John 5. 7, the Received Text's "Three Heavenly Witnesses" reading already appears in three earlier manuscripts (miniscules 88, 12th century, 629, 14th century, and 635, 11th century), as well as in Old Latin texts which were based on lost Greek manuscripts, long before the time of Erasmus.

But now, only since 1995, scholars doing detailed work on Codex Vaticanus have discovered little marks in the margins of the Old Testament and the New Testament text of Codex Vaticanus, written by the original scribe of the manuscript. In the New Testament, these marks occur at places in the text where the old authentic Greek texts like those used by Erasmus and the King James Bible DIFFER from Codex Vaticanus. Often there is also an actual gap in the text of Codex Vaticanus itself at these points. This proves THAT THOSE GREEK TEXTS SUCH AS WERE USED BY ERASMUS AND THE KING JAMES BIBLE ALREADY EXISTED WHEN CODEX VATICANUS WAS WRITTEN (around AD 385, or somewhat earlier). And, in fact, the original scribe of Codex Vaticanus knew these other texts differed from his text and MARKED IN THE MARGIN WHERE HE DECIDED HE WOULD MAKE HIS MANUSCRIPT DIFFER - USUALLY WHERE HE DECIDED TO OMIT AN IMPORTANT PASSAGE IN THE AUTHENTIC GREEK TEXT WHICH WAS AGAINST HIS THEOLOGY.

So for example at I John 5. 7, exactly where Codex Vaticanus differs from the authentic Greek texts used for the King James Bible (Codex Vaticanus misses out the "Three Heavenly Witnesses" text), there occur THREE LITTLE DOTS IN THE MARGIN OF CODEX VATICANUS to mark where the scribe OMITTED THIS TEXT. Also in John's Gospel Chapter 8, where the authentic Greek texts had the story of the woman caught in adultery (still found in the great King James Bible), Codex Vaticanus has a two-dot mark, AGAIN SHOWING THE SCRIBE OF CODEX VATICANUS OMITTED THIS PASSAGE IN HIS FAKE TEXT. Also at Mark 16. 8-20, where in the authentic Greek texts Jesus foretells how his disciples and believers will perform in Jesus' Name miracles of healing and will speak in new tongues etc. (which Codex Vaticanus omits and which modernistic scholars and Vatican intellectuals hate because they don't believe in the supernatural power of a living God), there appears a huge gap in the text itself, WHICH SHOWS ONCE AGAIN THAT THE SCRIBE OF CODEX VATICANUS OMITTED THIS TRUE TEXT FROM HIS FAKE MANUSCRIPT.

These are only three examples out of many that could be brought forward. Time after time throughout Codex Vaticanus, exactly where the scribe disagreed with the authentic ancient Greek texts such as were used by Erasmus and the King James Bible (i.e. the Received Text, or Textus Receptus, also known as the "Syrian" or "Syriac" text), these marks are placed in the margin of Codex Vaticanus. So those modernistic scholars who reject the Received Text should SHUT THEIR MOUTHS. The Received Text REIGNS SUPREME. Not only is it as old as Codex Vaticanus, it goes straight back to the Apostles who wrote it under the inspiration of God. It has not changed one letter since it was written - GOD HAS PRESERVED IT PERFECT. So dump your NIV (the Vatican's favorite, based on the fake Codex Vaticanus) and get back to the King James!

You can examine the findings of the scholars working on Codex Vaticanus at www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/Vaticanus/ (PS. The articles by Philip Payne in PDF format on that site give the simplest and original account. Some writers seem now to be trying to obscure the glaring facts revealed by Payne, and attempting a "cover-up" on the real meaning and dating of these very important signs in Codex Vaticanus.)


Even the ancient scribes abhorred the corruptions of Codex Vaticanus ....

These are photos (the lower one in close up) of a part of a page of Codex Vaticanus showing the first few verses of Hebrews Chapter 1. The authentic Greek text at verse 3 reads as the KJV does today: "Who [i.e. the Son of God], UPHOLDING [Greek: pher?all things [= the total universe] by the Word of His power ...." The writer of Codex Vaticanus changed this to: "Who MANIFESTING [Greek: phaner?The All [the Total Universe] by the Word of His power ...." Since the passage relates to the time when the Son of God was incarnate on earth, He clearly did not MANIFEST all things at that time but UPHELD all things, i.e. maintained the whole universe in operation by the power of the Spirit whilst His weak human body was on earth. The motive for the alteration shines through. It backs up the heresy that Jesus, whilst on earth, was not real flesh and blood at all, but merely a PHANTASMAL MANIFESTATION of the All (the deified Total Universe, Pan, the supreme god of paganism). This is the Antichristian heresy referred to by John the Apostle in 1 John 4. 1-3, which denied Jesus Christ had come in the flesh. Just to the left of the main text in the photos above you can see a marginal note by a later Greek scribe commenting on the ridiculous emendation made by the first scribe: "You utter idiot and knave! Why don't you leave the original alone and stop altering it?" [Greek: amathestate kai kake, aphes ton palaion, m꠭etapoiei.] We can thoroughly sympathize with the second scribe.