textus receptus

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[tek-stuhs ri-sep-tuhs] / ˈtɛk stəs rɪˈsɛp təs /

noun

1. a text of a work that is generally accepted as being genuine or original.

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Etymology

Origin of textus receptus

1855–60; < New Latin: received text

Example Sentences

Is this one of the cases of “painful uncertainty” which has induced the Religious Tract Society and Dr. Tischendorf to wish to set aside the textus receptus altogether?

From Project Gutenberg

Thus we find that Didymus, writing in the time of Cicero, does not quote the readings of Aristarchus as we should quote a textus receptus.

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The καί is found in the Complutensian,—because the editors followed their copies: it is not found in the Textus Receptus only because Erasmus did not as in cases before mentioned follow his.

From Project Gutenberg

Textus Receptus, origin of the name, 3; character of, 5, 15-16, 30; imperfect, 5.

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Africa, e.g., had no monopoly of Low-Latin.173.The numerator in these fractions denotes the number of times throughout the Gospels when the text of the MS. in question agrees in the selected passages with the Textus Receptus: the denominator, when it witnesses to the Neologian Text.174.Once in k by comperire probably a slip for corripere.

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