GREEK TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT - Conclusion

 Improved editions of Erasmus' Greek New Testament provided the basis for better translations into European languages. Marthin Luther William Tyndale, Antonio Brucioli, and Francisco de Enzinas used them to translate the Greek Scriptures into German, English, Italian, and Spanish respectively.

 

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Erasmus lived a period of momentous religious turmoil, and his Greek New Testament was considered an invaluable aid by the Protestant Reformers. Erasmus himself was considered by some to be a reformer, until, that is, Reformation began in fearsome earnest. Then he refused to take sides in the great theological debates that followed. Interesting over 100 years ago, David Schaff wrote that Erasmus "died in isolation , without a part. The Catholics would not claim him; the Protestants could not.

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