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 | | From: | admin | | Subject: | The Greek Text of westcott & Hort #5 | | Date: | Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:43:05 GMT |
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 | The following is a continuing post from the Book "Which Version is the
Bible" by Floyd Nolen Jones. Chapter 5, pages 59-74
Which Version is the Bible?
Copyright 1995 · Floyd Jones Ministries, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. This book may be freely reproduced in any form as long
as it is not distributed for any material gain or profit; however, this book
CONSTANTINE COMMISSIONS EUSEBIUS TO PREPARE 50 BIBLES
In 331, Constantine instructed Eusebius to prepare fifty copies of the Bible
so that he could place them in the major churches. This Eusebius did. The
question is, what did Eusebius use for his guide in preparing these 50
Bibles for Constantine? Eusebius considered Origen to have been the
greatest of men; he claimed to have collected 800 of Origen's letters and to
have used his Hexapla. Thus, Eusebius - assisted by Pamphilus - selected
the fifth column of Origen's Hexapla, with alternate readings from the other
columns, for the Old Testament,[1] adding the Apocrypha (books not included
in the Hebrew canon such as 1st and 2nd Esdras, Tobit, Judith, The rest of
the Book of Esther, the Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Bel and the
Dragon, 1st and 2nd Maccabees, Baruch, etc.) and completed the work using
Origen's edited New Testament. These were prepared for Constantine on fine
vellum and backed by the stamp of the Roman government. The vellum (animal
skin) was of such high quality that one antelope would be used just to make
two sheets of finished product. Only the throne would have had sufficient
funds to pay for such an undertaking.
THE INQUISITION
What does this have to do with Vaticanus B and Sinaiticus Aleph? The Roman
Catholic Church has tried for years to destroy Protestantism and return all
Christendom under Rome's Authority. Millions of people were put to death,
not in war, but by various means of torture and murder during the
Inquisition. The Roman church, using the Inquisition, made Adolph Hitler
look like Little Lord Fauntleroy. Hitler murdered six million Jews - a most
heinous sin and crime - but during the Inquisition from just after 1200 to
around 1750 A.D. as many as sixty eight million human beings were cruelly
slain, all in the name of God! A sizable number of the slain were
themselves Roman Catholics who had been falsely accused for political and
selfish motives. It was a blood bath, a horror story!
Most of the major wars fought in Europe beginning in the middle 1500's and
extending for several centuries were conducted for the purpose of bringing
the Protestants back under the dominion of the Pope. Then, in 1870, when it
was decided by a portion of the Church to "update" the Bible of the
Reformation which had brought about the breaking away from Romanism (that
wicked system that had strangled Tyndale and burned his body, that had
murdered sixty-eight million people who would not bow to it, that had
slaughtered 70,000 people at one time in the St. Bartholomew's day massacre)
the Great Whore said in effect: "You Protestants are going to update your
Bible? Here, look what we just found on the Vatican shelf. Would you like
to use Vaticanus B to assist you toward that end?" Yet the revisors were
not even the least suspicious. Is not that amazing? When a similar ploy
was tried on Erasmus in 1515, he saw through it. Why should the Vatican
suddenly want to help the Reformers? We shall examine why presently.
What then are Vaticanus B and Sinaiticus Aleph? They are two extant (still
existing) MSS of the original fifty which Eusebius had copied out for
Constantine beginning in 331 A.D.[2] Of course, Eusebius did not copy them
personally but oversaw and supervised the work. B was discovered in 1481 in
the Vatican library. Tischendorf, a German text critic, discovered
Sinaiticus Aleph in a waste basket at a monastery near the foot of Mount
Sinai in 1844. They are derived from Origen's fifth column of the Hexapla
and his New Testament. Again, Origen was the "Christian" infidel who
deliberately altered Biblical text and, with the aid of fourteen
stenographers, changed it to fit his own beliefs.
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[1] Ira M. Price, The Ancestry of our English Bible, 2nd ed., rev., (New
York: Harper and Bros., 1949), p. 79.
[2] Fuller, Which Bible?, op. cit., p. 163. Both Hort and Tischendorf
believed that these were two extant copies which Eusebius had prepared.
A.T. Robertson, among many others, concurs: Introduction to Textual
Criticism, op. cit., p. 80.
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