Someone on this thread had said "...if I had to pick one for authoritive power, it would be the KJV. Because the Waldesians the earliest christians I can trace and learn about through world history after the Apostles were greatly involved in the writing and teaching of that bible."
To be more specific, the Bible of the Waldesians, the Italic, was a Latin translation of a Greek text Bible scholar Frederick Henry A. Scrivener says, as quoted in my post, is dated about 157 A.D. The Italic is said by scholars to have verse wordings closer to the Textus Receptus than to the Alexandarian Greek texts and the Westcott-Hort. The Textus Receptus was created by Erasmus in about 1516 from several Greek Byzantine texts. So the Italic is not the Received Text, or Textus Receptus. What Bible scholarship is pointing to is that the Italic Latin New Testament belonged to a Greek text type more similar to the Byzantine and the Textus Receptus than to the Alexanarian and Westcott-Hort Greek text types. I am not sure if Erasmus possessed or used the Italic, though I remember reading that supposedly one of the reasons he put the present wording of I John 5: 7-8 in the Textus Receptus is because a Latin text in existence at the time had that wording. I don't know which Latin text is referred to. If it was the Italic, thats interesting.
