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12. John William Burgon, also wrote
Why did Westcott
and Hort knock the Church Fathers? Because many of the writings of the
Church Fathers contained words which were contrary to those preferred by
these liberal Anglican clergymen. There were approximately seventy-six
Church Fathers who died before 400 A.D. whose writings made frequent
reference to the New Testament. Yet, Westcott (of the nineteenth
century) and D. A. Carson (of the twentieth century) said that the Greek
texts used before 400 A.D. did not reflect the Traditional or Byzantine
text, but only the Westcott and Hort-type of text. Westcott and Carson
refused to see the evidence. Not only did quotations of these
seventy-six Church Fathers from the Textus Receptus prior to 400 A.D.
exist, but these Textus Receptus quotations were in the Majority. Not
only were they in a simple majority, but were in a majority ratio of 3
to 2 (60% to 40%)! In fact, Dr. Jack Moorman when researching this
independently, found the ratio to be 70% to 30%! (See Early Church
Fathers and the A.V. (#2136 @ $6+S&H)
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