What does TEX REC stand for?

The concept of a critical edition, as opposed to the earlier one of the textus receptus, is commonly associated with the name of Karl Lachmann (1793-1851), who applied it to the text of the New Testament (1831) and, especially, in his edition of Lucretius (1850).

His ax is sharp and his blows are relentless against the cultural textus receptus.

But by then, other crucial discoveries had already called the Textus Receptus into serious question.

We have to rid ourselves of prejudices towards this science, of an attitude virtually regarding the sacred text as having fallen from heaven in the very form in which it is been found in the textus receptus and has been transmitted in the synodal translation.

The textus receptus is: "Moses received the Torah at Sinai who handed it on to Joshua; Joshua handed it on to the elders, and from the elders to the men of the Great Assembly.

As Bruce Metzger aptly notes in his evaluation of this reversal of evidence: 'As would be expected from such a procedure, here and there in Erasmus' self-made Greek text are readings which have never been found in any known Greek manuscript -- but which are still perpetuated today in printings of the so-called Textus Receptus of the Greek New Testament'.

Very likely, the compilers of the textus receptus relied on earlier texts that were then incorporated into the new collection as chapters, paragraphs, or groups of paragraphs; but it would be futile to belabor this point in the present context.

30) This Ben Asher manuscript fully accords with Jacob Ben Hayyim's Textus Receptus.