Monday, February 03, 2025

Revelation 22:16-22 in the various editions of Erasmus

The last six verses of Revelation 22 have been the topic of criticism (or praise) of Erasmus' work because apparently Erasmus' only manuscript of Revelation (GA 2814) was missing the last six verses (see the discussion from Pastor Jeffrey Stivason, here). 

The usual explanation is that Erasmus, being knowledgeable in Greek, back translated the final six verse of Revelation 22 from the Vulgate Latin.

I plan to update this page as time permits.  However, for now I want to provide the five editions of Erasmus (including Greek and Latin) for the passage in question.

(1516, image 584)
(1519, image 690)
(1519, p. 565, image 691)
(1522, p. 561, image 633)
(1522, p. 562, image 634)
(1527, p. 545, image 597)
(1535, p. 429, image 477)

H.T. to Jan Krans for this helpful list of online editions of Erasmus (link).