Showing posts with label Theodore Beza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theodore Beza. Show all posts
Friday, October 03, 2025

Who First Identified that Beza's Conjecture at Revelation 16:5 was a conjecture?

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 A reader recently emailed with a question, which I am paraphrasing in the following way: Who is the first person to claim that Beza was eng...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Diodati's Versions at Revelation 16:5

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Jean Diodati was born in Geneva to a family exiled from Italy for being Protestants.  He became a professor of Hebrew at 21 years old (at Be...
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Monday, February 10, 2025

Revelation 16:5 in Tomson's New Testament of 1576

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In 1576, Laurence Tomson (1539-1608) published a New Testament based on Beza's then-current annotations (as well as other materials).   ...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Beza's Ancient Codices at Luke 17:36

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 In a recent video, Dwayne Green commented on Theodore Beza's Annotations on Luke 17:36.  His comments should be visible in the right co...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

External Evidence against Beza's Reading at Revelation 16:5

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In his 1582 edition, Beza changed Revelation 16:5 from "και ο οσιος" to "και ο εσομενος".  There are no extant Greek man...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

How Dare I Appeal to the Majority of Greek Manuscripts!

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In some places where the King James Version follows the wrong Greek text, it is fairly straightforward to demonstrate this from an appeal to...
Sunday, November 19, 2023

Richard Brett and Ethiopic

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There are claims on the internet that Richard Brett (one of the KJV translators) had some knowledge of Ethiopic.   Oxford University provide...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Beza, Plato, and the "Shall Be" Speculative Restoration at Revelation 16:5

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Beza speculatively replaced "ὅσιος" with "ἐσόμενος" in Revelation 16:5.  Sometimes advocates of the King James Version (...