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From: Maurice Robinson 
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On Tue, 19 Mar 1996 Orthopodeo@aol.com wrote:

> one of
> the subscribers here copied it over to the most vitriolic of KJV Only,
> Ruckmanite mailing lists (i.e., the Peter Ruckman, Gail Riplinger, "all
> scholars are together in a grand conspiracy to get the KJV" style folks) as
> an illustration of the "subjectivity" of textual criticism.  In fact, the
> person who forwarded it added at the beginning, " As Dr. Wheeler points out,
> such phony scholarship needs to be debunked in the same way that Hort's
> "Lucian Recension" was debunked by Burgon." 

Those who do not have to interact with the KJV-Only movement will not 
understand White's post, but those within conservative circles deal with 
this type of material every day.

The whole situation is is quite humorous since it is the ECLECTICS here
who defend the KJV reading (XWRIS) in James 2:18.  The pro-Byzantine
people whom they praise as critics of modern eclecticism are the ones here
defending the reading EK, which does NOT appear in the KJV at that point. 

For the record, the TR editions of Erasmus, Stephens, and even Elzevir
read EK, but the fictional TR which purportedly underlies the KJV
(artificially created by F.H.A. Scrivener in 1894) reads XWRIS,
deliberately to agree with the KJV. 

I suppose the current post indicates that the KJV-Only network now
considers the KJV in error at the point of James 2:18....unless they
simply failed to read what was being said. 

One of these days the KJV-Only proponents might do well to take a few
extra moments and actually READ what is stated in this conference in full
CONTEXT before spouting off in the usual manner.  *:-)

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                       Maurice A. Robinson, Ph.D.
            Associate Professor of Greek and New Testament
              Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
                      Wake Forest, North Carolina
                   
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