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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 425
The B and ALEPH are two of the texts that the Alexandrian Text is composed of, which I
will speak of more later. There is one more point concerning Alexandria; Henry Coray writes
that even the classical writings of Alexandria are in error. Coray writes that a list of thirty-eight
of the Kings of Egypt compiled from the greatest scholar in Alexandria in 200 B.C. is unreliable.
He says, “of the entire number only three or four of them are recognizable.” A list of the kings of
Assyria is also unreliable and a list of the kings of Babylon is so misspelled that it is almost
unrecognizable.
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As you can see, Alexandria was a breeding ground of heretical teaching and corruption of
the word of God. Henry Coray demonstrates that it also has a history of poor and inaccurate
scholarship. Alexandria is believed to be the origin of the Alexandrian Text. On the other hand
manuscripts of the Received Text are not associated with any particular city or region.
Origin of the Received Text
The Received Text is of the Byzantine text-type. This text-type can be traced to many
parts of the world and is not limited to any specific locality. It can be traced to “Greece,
Constantinople, Asia Minor, Palestine, Syria, Alexandria, other parts of Africa, not to mention
Sicily, southern Italy, Gaul, England, and Ireland.”
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The Received Text is so called because it has been accepted and received as the authentic
word of God by the Christian Church dating back to 150 A.D. when the Peshitto Version of the
Bible was translated in 157 A.D. when the Waldensian Church first translated the Bible into
Latin using the Received Text. The Waldensian Church is believed to have originated in 120
A.D, just twenty years after the death of the Apostle John. It is believed that some of the early
Church fathers could recognize the true word of God because they “had actually seen the New
Testament autographs or very early copies; and had personally hand-copied large portions of
Scripture.”
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Although the originals of the New Testament no longer exist, we have the writings of
early Church fathers who consistently quoted the scriptures. The great Church leader John
Burgon cataloged more than 86,000 of these New Testament citations (quotes) of the New
Testament by early Church fathers who lived prior to 325 A.D.
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These quotes document that
the Received Text is authentic and uncorrupted. Pastor Les Garrett of Australia, author of Which
Bible Can We Trust, says that the whole of the New Testament can be compiled from the quotes
of early Church father.
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For over 1850 years Church leaders have accepted the Greek Received Text. The
Received Text was the basis of the Bibles of the Syrian Church (“It was at Antioch, capital of
Syria, that the believers were first called Christians.”), the Waldensian Church of Northern Italy,
the Gallic Church in Southern France; the Celtic Church in Scotland and Ireland and the Greek
Orthodox Church.
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It is said that the Greek Orthodox Church from the time of the Apostles to
the present day has used the Greek Orthodox Bible. It is the Greek Received Text that has been
used since the earliest days to create new translations in different languages. Those for which
copies still exist include:
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