Just a few questions and comments about some disturbing things I read
on this thread:

"The starting place for textual criticism was the corpus of the Textus
Receptus."

Actually, Jerome did his share of textual criticism centuries earlier
when collating Greek and Hebrew texts for his revision of the Old
Latin.

"Copying is how the Textus Receptus was preserved for us (didn't
Constantine order 50 copies to be prepared for churches?)"

No, since the Textus Receptus is based on manuscripts that were not
around in Constatine’s time.

"there are a great many people who DO
blame the Catholic Church for the Textus Receptus."

What could the Catholic Church possibly have to do with the Textus
Receptus?  The Church has never used the TR.  The Vulgate was official
text for centuries and the church made no official translation of Greek
manuscripts until after 1944.

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