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What Hort and Westcott Believed

by Dr. Ken Mat to

Over the past few months I have been bringing you comparisons of the Textus Receptus with t he Hort-Westcot t Greek text . We have seenbot h massive and subtle dif ferences between the t wo t exts. Modern theologians and the majority of pastors have placed their t rust in themodern versions as being the most accurate t ranslations based on the t wo manuscripts Vaticanus and Sinait icus. These two manuscripts

are theorized t o have been writt en in the 4 th century. Vaticanus and Sinaiticus dif fer from each o ther in over t hree thousand places. There isno harmony between the two manuscripts which underlie all the modern versions.

Now in this weekly supplement , I want to list the beliefs of the t wo prof essors who were the driving fo rce in 1871 to revise the King JamesVersion. From the outset the project of a language revision was a ruse. There never intended to be a revision of the King James language. Allalong Hort and Westcot t had planned to supplant the Textus Receptus and use t he Alexandrian text s t o produce an entirely new Bible. It isnecessary to know what these two professors believed so you will know why t hey replaced the Textus Receptus. By knowing their beliefs,you will gain needed knowledge as to why the Revised Version of 1881 was produced.

Whenever you speak of the wo rk of any translation, knowing the belief syst em of the t ranslators will give you insight into t hat t ranslation.The King James translato rs started in 1604 with 54 but by reason o f sickness and death, t he end count was 47. Every translato r of the King

James Bible were solid born again Christians, including King James who authorized the translation. King James had nothing to do with thetranslation. The men who were chosen were tops in their field of languages. Here are just three examples:

Bishop Lancelot Andrews - Prof icient in 20 languages including Greek Hebrew, Chaldee and Syriac and conversant in 15 of those languages

William John Bois - His father t aught him Hebrew at age 5 and by time he was 6, he could write it. At the age of fif t een, he was a student atSt. Johns college, Cambridge. (At 5 years o ld, I was playing wit h Lincoln Logs and Lionel t rains.)

Dr. Miles Smith - He had a knowledge of Greek and Latin f athers and an expert in Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew.

These are the men that James White, Stewart Custer, D.A. Carson, Bruce Metzger, Kenneth Barker, Don Wilkins, and ot her modernt ranslators believe that they are smarter than. These guys do no t have 1/100 of the knowledge that t he King James t ranslators possessed.That is because the modern translators bask in their education and self-esteem, while the King James translators were all godly men whobasked in Calvary.

Some of the modern translators of today:Robert Bratcher - Good News Bible - Disbelieved the first three chapters of GenesisEdgar Goodspeed - Revised Standard Version - Disbelieved in the deity o f Christ and disbelieved the miracles of Christ .Mart in Woudstra - New International Version - Had oversight o f the entire Old Testament - SodomiteJ.B. Phillips - New Testament in Modern English and NASB Interlinear Greek-English New Testament by Z ondervan - Necromancer - Believed

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that C.S. Lewis appeared to him on his TV set a few days aft er the death of Lewis.Philip Schaff - 1901 American Standard Version - Chairman - Sought the reuniting of the Protestant Church with Rome, had an audience withPope Gregory the XVI.Carlo Martini - United Bible Societies Greek New Testament - Jesuit Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

Now let us be honest, is God going to hand His holy Word over to unbelievers, necromancers, Roman Catholics, Roman Catholicsympathizers, Sodomites, or people who disbelieve t he actual t ext of Scripture? This is small as you will see what Hort and West cot tbelieved. Keep in mind the modern theologian and Pastor revere what these two say concerning textual criticism. If they didnt, then the King

James Bible would be in every church instead of the modern perversions. If your church uses modern versions, then it is a Hort and Westcottchurch, regardless of denomination.

The only way to gain a perspective as to what Hort and Westcot t believed is to read direct quot ations f rom them.

(James 3:12 KJV) Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fres h.

Brooke Foss Westcot t (1825-1903)Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892)

Atonement of ChristThe f act is, I do no t see how Gods justice can be satisf ied witho ut every mans suff ering in his own person the full penalty fo r his sins. (1)

Certainly nothing can be more unscriptural than the modern limiting of Christs bearing our sins and sufferings to His death; but indeed thatis only one aspect of an almost universal heresy. (2)

(1) Hort, Arthur Fenton, Life and letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort, (New York, 1896), Vol. 1, p. 120


Baptismal Rege nerationat the same t ime in language stat ing that we maintain Baptismal Regeneration as the most important o f doct rinesthe pure Romishview seems to me nearer, and more likely to lead to, the truth than the Evangelical.

Hort, Arthur Fenton, Life and lett ers of Fenton Jo hn Anthony Hort, (New York, 1896), Vol. 1, p. 76

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I am very glad to have seen bot h your note and Light fo ot s - Glad too that we have had such an opportunity of openly speaking. For I toomust disclaim sett ing forth infallibility in front of my convict ions. All I hold is, that the more I learn, the more I am convinced that f resh doubtscome f rom my own ignorance, and that at present I f ind the presumption in f avour of absolute t ruth- I reject t he word infallibility-of HolyScripture overwhelming.

Westcott, Arthur, Life and Letters of Brooke Foss Westcott, (New York, 1903), Volume 1, P. 207

CommunismI have prett y well made up my mind to devot e my three or f our years up here to the study of the subject o f communism. (1)

I can only say that it was through the region of pure politics that I myself approach Communism. (2)



CreationNo o ne now, I suppose, holds t hat the f irst three chapters of Genesis, for example, give a literal history--- I could never understand howanyone reading them with open eyes could think they did---yet they disclose to us a Gospel. So it is probably elsewhere.

Westcott, Arthur, Life and Letters of Brooke Foss Westcott, (New York, 1903), Volume 2, P.69

EdenI am inclined to think t hat no such st ate as Eden (I mean the popular not ion) ever existed, and that Adams fall in no degree diff ered fromthe fall of each of his descendants, as Coleridge justly argues.

Hort, Arthur Fenton, Life and letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort, (New York, 1896) Vol. 1, P.78

Evangelical ChristianityFurther I agree with them [authors of Essays and Reviews] in condemning many leading specific doctrines of the popular theologyEvangelicals seem to me perverted rather than untrue. There are, I fear, still more serious differences between us on the subject of authority, and especially the authority of the Bible.

Hort, Arthur Fenton, Life and lett ers of Fenton John Anthony Hort , (New York, 1896) Vol. 1, p.400 - This lett er was writt en to Rev. Rowland

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Williams, 10/21/1858. - True Christians had rebuffed the Oxford movement (also known as the Tractarians) which was a movement to bringthe Church of England under the authority of Rome. Hort embraced the Oxford movement.

EvolutionBut t he book which has most engaged me is Darwin. Whatever may be thought of it, it is a book t hat o ne is proud to be contemporary withMy feeling is strong that the theory is unanswerable. If so, it opens up a new period.

Hort, Arthur Fenton, Life and lett ers of Fenton John Anthony Hort , (New York, 1896), Vol. 1, Pages 414-416

The Greek Text of the King James BibleI had no idea till the last few weeks of the importance of t exts, having read so litt le Greek Testament, and dragged on with that villainousTextus ReceptusThink of that vile Textus Receptus leaning entirely on late MSS [manuscripts]; it is a blessing there are such early ones.

Hort, Arthur Fenton, Life and letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort, (New York, 1896), Vol. 2, p. 211

Heaven(1) No doubt the language of the Rubric is unguarded, but it saves us from t he error of connecting the Presence of Christs glorifiedhumanity with place; heaven is a state and not a place.

(2) Yet the unseen is the largest part of life. Heaven lies about us now in infancy alone; and by swif t , silent pauses for t hought, f or recollection, f or aspiration, we cannot only keep fresh the influence of that diviner atmosphere, but breathe it more habitually.

(3) We may reasonably hope, by patient, resolute, faithful, united endeavour t o f ind heaven about us here, the glory of our earthly life.

Westcot t , Arthur, Life and Letters of Brooke Foss Westcot t , (New York, 1903), Volume 2(1) Page 49(2) Page 253(3) page 394

HellCertainly in my case it proceeds f rom no personal dread; when I have been living most godlessly, I have never been able to f righten myself with visions o f a distant fut ure, even while I held the doctrine.

Hort, Arthur Fenton, Life and letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort, (New York, 1896), Vol. 1, p. 122

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Mariolatry(1) Af ter leaving the Monastery, we shaped our course to a lit tle o ratory which we discovered on t he summit o f a neighboring hillFortunately, we found the door open. It is very small, with one kneeling-place, and behind a screen was a Pieta the size of life (i.e. a Virginand dead Christ )Had I been alone, I could have knelt t here for hours.

(2) It is smaller than I expected, and the colouring is less rich, but in expression it is perfect. The face of the virgin is unspeakably beautiful. I

looked t ill the lip seemed to t remble with intensity of feeling---of feeling simply, fo r it would be impossible to say whether it be awe or joy o r hope---humanity shrinking before the divine, or swelling with its conscious possession. It is enough that there is deep, intensely deep,emotion such as t he mother of the Lord may have had.

(3) I have been persuaded for many years that Mary-worship and Jesus worship have very much in common in t heir causes and result s.

Westcot t , Arthur, Life and Letters of Brooke Foss Westcot t , (New York, 1903), Volume 1(1) Page 81(2) Page 183

(3) Hort , Arthur Fenton, Life and let t ers of Fento n John Anthony Hort , (New York, 1896), Vol. 1, p. 81 - T his was a lett er writ t en to Westcot ton Oct ober 17, 1865.

Satan(1) Now if t here be a devil, he cannot merely bear a corrupt ed and marred image of God; he must be wholly evil, his name evil, his everyenergy and act evil. Would it no t be a violation of the divine att ributes f or the Word to be actively the support o f such a nature of t hat?

(2) The Word upholds his existence, not his evil. That is in himself; t hat is the myst erious, awful possibility implied in his being a will. I needscarcely say that I do not mean by this acknowledgement of an evil spirit that I acknowledge a material devil. But does anyone?

Hort, Arthur Fenton, Life and lett ers of Fenton Jo hn Anthony Hort, (New York, 1896), Vol. 1,(1) Page 121(2) Page 50

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