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On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Julian Goldberg forwarded:
> 
> I have read somewhere that no one has ever made a New Testament translation
> into English that is based only on the Byzantine or Majority text purely.
...

The folks at the Majority Text Society are translating now, but I do not 
know what will become of it.


> ** Scrivener tried to "reconstruct" as best as he may what most likely was the
> Greek text which lay before the 1611 translators. The resultant composite Greek
> text agrees primarily with Beza, then with Stephanus (with some exceptions - see
> Heb 10:23 "faith" vs "hope")....

He also missed at Acts 19:20  Lord vs God.

 
> ** The TR was a "rough and ready" tool used as a ref. to the Byz text, but since
> the H/F text and the Robinson/Pierpont GNT have been published the TR is only
> useful for collation purposes (no critical value).

The Maj Text should be used by the IGNTP and all other collators.  This 
would save a lot of work because more mss agree with that than any TR.  I 
told them, but they said don't call us, we'll call you  :)
 
> Hope this is helpful.
> 
> Mike A.

It was.

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