Lineage of the King James Version

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Lineage of the King James Bible

Compiled by Dr. Ken Matto The King James Bible has a very Godly lineage dating back to the original autographs and has been transmitted to us through the ages without corruption because God promised that His Word would be preserved by Himself so subsequent generations of Christians would have the same authoritative words as the Early Church. Below are the names of the earlier versions of which the King James Bible drew its incorruption from. If you have a pastor in your church that discards the King James Bible as inferior to other Bible Translations, then he has been seriously deceived. If the KJB was inferior would God have used it to literally evangelize the world? THE OLD TESTAMENT The Masoretic Text 1524-25 Bomberg Edition of the Masoretic Text also known as the Ben Chayyim Text THE NEW TESTAMENT All dates are Anno Domini (A.D.) 30-95------------Original Autographs 95-150----------Greek Vulgate (Copy of Originals) 120---------------The Waldensian Bible 150---------------The Peshitta (Syrian Copy) 150-400--------Papyrus Readings of the Receptus 157--------------The Italic Bible - From the Old Latin Vulgate used in Northern Italy 157--------------The Old Latin Vulgate 177--------------The Gallic Bible 310--------------The Gothic Version of Ulfilas 350-400-------The Textus Receptus is Dominant Text 400--------------Augustine favors Textus Receptus 400--------------The Armenian Bible (Translated by Mesrob) 400--------------The Old Syriac 450--------------The Palestinian Syriac Version 450-1450------Byzantine Text Dominant (Textus Receptus) 508--------------Philoxenian - by Chorepiscopos Polycarp, who commissioned by Philoxenos of Mabbug 500-1500------Uncial Readings of Receptus (Codices) 616--------------Harclean Syriac (Translated by Thomas of Harqel - Revision of 508 Philoxenian) 864--------------Slavonic 1100-1300----The Latin Bible of the Waldensians (History goes back as far as the 2nd century as people of the Vaudoix Valley) 1160------------The Romaunt Version (Waldensian) 1300-1500----The Latin Bible of the Albigenses 1382-1550----The Latin Bible of the Lollards

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Lineage of the King James Version

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1384------------The Wycliffe Bible 1516------------Erasmus's First Edition Greek New Testament 1522------------Erasmus's Third Edition Published 1522-1534----Martin Luther's German Bible (1) 1525------------Tyndale Version 1534------------Tyndale's Amended Version 1534------------Colinaeus' Receptus 1535------------Coverdale Version 1535------------Lefevre's French Bible 1537------------Olivetan's French Bible 1537------------Matthew's Bible (John Rogers Printer) 1539------------The Great Bible 1541------------Swedish Upsala Bible by Laurentius 1550------------Stephanus Receptus (St. Stephen's Text) 1550------------Danish Christian III Bible 1558------------Biestken's Dutch Work 1560------------The Geneva Bible 1565------------Theodore Beza's Receptus 1568------------The Bishop's Bible 1569------------Spanish Translation by Cassiodoro de Reyna 1598------------Theodore Beza's Text 1602------------Czech Version 1607------------Diodati Italian Version 1611------------The King James Bible with Apocrypha between Old and New Testament 1613------------The King James Bible (Apocrypha Removed) (2) 1769------------4th update of the English Language in the King James Bible We have in our possession today the 4th update of the King James Bible. It was done to update the English language only. No translation work was done. (1) Out of the Bible which was translated by Martin Luther came True Bibles in the following languages: Russian, French, Norwegian, Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian, Rumanian, Swiss, Swedish, Austrian and Czech Bibles. (2) Out of the 1611 KJV came a Bible in the following languages: Chinese, Burmese, Malayan, Japanese, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, American and many others. Back

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