If you believe the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus were more in agreement w/ one another,
what comparisons w/ the Byzantine Text helped you to reach that conclusion?
A common theme I've noticed w/ the true men of God is martyrdom
[i.e. prophets, John the baptist, the crucifixion, apostles].
A timeline I put together of translations...
Jerome
Latin Translation
382 AD
Translated into 500 Languages
500 AD
5th Century - 15th Century
400-1400 AD
Dark Ages
Rome enacted a myriad of laws making it illegal for a common people
to obtain the Word of God & read it in their own language.
13th Century - 19th Century
1215 AD
Pope Inoccent III issued a law commanding anyone who translates the Bible
would be seized for trail & penalties. He stated:
"As by the old law, the beast touching the holy mount was to be stoned to death,
so simple & uneducated men were not to touch the Bible or venture to preach its doctrines."
1234 AD
"No one may possess the books of the Old & New Testaments in the Romance language, & if anyone possesses them he must turn them over to the local bishop within eight days after promulgation of this decree, SO THAT THEY MAY BE BURNED lest, be he a cleric or a layman, he is suspected until he is cleared of all suspicion."
- De Lortsh, Histoire de la Bible en France, 1910, p. 14
John Wycliffe
First English Bible
1382 AD (Later Revisions 1388 & 1395)
I defy the pope & all his laws! If God spare my life, ere many years,
I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more
of the scripture than thou dost."
- William Tyndale
"The translation of the scripture corrupted by William Tyndale should be utterly expelled, rejected, & put away
out of the hands of the people. All manner of books of the Old & New Testament in English being of the
crafty, false, & untrue translation of Tyndale shall be clearly & utterly abolished, extinguished,
& forbidden to be kept or used in this realm."
- King Henry VIII
"First, he maintained that faith alone justifies. Second, he maintained that to believe in forgiveness of sins,
& to embrace the mercy offered in the Gospel, was enough for salvation. Third, avered that human
traditions cannot bind the conscience, except where their neglect might occasion scandal."
- List of Charges Against William Tyndale
"Lord, open the king of England's eyes."
- William Tyndale Burned at The Stake
"But above all, beware ye wrest not the word to your own appetite as over many do, making it like a bell to sound as you please to interpret. But by the contrary, frame all your affections to follow the rule there set down. When ye read the scripture, read it with a sanctified & chaste ear: Admire reverently such obscure place as ye understand not, blaming only your own incapacity."
- King James I
Guy Fawkes Night
November 5th
Gunpowder Plot of 1605