The question from the chat, what's the deal with Erasmus rushing Revelation, James White?
You know, it's so dumb for James White to continually harp on Erasmus rushing to publish.
Okay, let's give James White that.
Let's just buy into James White's idea here that Erasmus rushed to get his Greek New Testament out
the door. Here's what's so dumb about that. That was in 1517. Okay, right? So, or it was around
that time. Erasmus is coming out with stuff in the teens and 20s. The King James Bible is translated
in 16, it was published in 1611. So, let's say Erasmus rushed and was sloppy. Well, guess what?
He had time to come out with a bunch of other editions that were not rushed,
and the King James Bible translators were primarily using Beza's 1598 Greek New Testament.
So, was Beza's 1598 New Testament rushed? No. So, you have like literally 80, you know,
70 years, 80 years going by from Erasmus's rushed Greek New Testament to the King James translators.
There was plenty of time for Erasmus himself and Stephanus and Beza to fix all the problems in it
and get it right by 1598 so that the King James translators could start translating in 1604.
So, they're translating in 1604. Why does it matter that something that came out in the early
1500s was rushed? 80 years of rush? Yeah, it's a strong man. I was reading too where Erasmus,
you know, it talks about Erasmus doing that, but then it says Erasmus, you know, like the later
editions, he had, you know, more to work with and, you know, like revised it and everything.
But like you said, I mean, even if you were to look up the TR that you would get off the shelf,
like from the Trinitarian Bible Society, it says this is the Beza and Stephanus, you know,
like this is a, you know, basically that's what you're reading is the Beza and Stephanus editions,
but yeah, not to knock Erasmus or anything like that, but yeah, it's so, so dumb to bring that up.