Wait wait wait. There are other "majority texts" than the textus receptus? I am clueless on this topic it seems.
I think we got one byzantine translation the 1776 lutheran one. Atleast it has 1 john 5:7 like the KJV and many other verses in a similar fashion. Or is the byzantine and textus receptus different also?
Yes. Byzantine texts family are manuscripts mostly found in the former Byzantine empire, i.e. former Eastern Roman Empire. Thats also where
the eastern church (so called "orthodox) has been spread. They used Greek as their language, thats why they produced many Greek manuscrips.
Because the Western Roman Empire stopped using Greek and used Latin Vulgate instead, there were produced almost none Greek manuscripts.
Thats why the Byzantine text family of Greek manuscripts makes the majority of survived Greek manuscripts.
Erasmus (the creator of Textus Receptus) had few byzantine Greek manuscripts of not very good quality. He wished to use also Codex Vaticanus, but he cant.
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There are some other editions of Byzantine family you can find:
1. Robinson-Pierpoint Byzantine Greek New Testament
- text is composed on the majority of byzantine reading, so this is truly a "majority text"
2. Orthodox Patriarchal text
- honorable men of the orthodox church selected some byzantine manuscripts they think are of the best quality and based their text on them
- their criteria was that the text must be the best witness to the Church, so this text is ecclesiastical
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The reading of the KJV in 1J 5:7 is not the majority reading. Its taken from Latin,not from Greek. You will not find it in any majority text edition.