Month: May 2021

Constantine was the emperor of Rome in 312 C.E.  He accepted the Christian Religion after winning the battle against Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvan Bridge on 28 October 312 C.E.  He sees a sign in the form of a cross with the words in Latin “Hoc Signo Vinces”, which means, “In this sign you will overcome”, but Constantine worshipped the sun.  He worshipped “Mithra”.  He did not truly repent, but he accepted the Christian religion only in name as a strategy.

There have been two streams of manuscripts (M.S.S.) visible through the centuries and are so to this day.

There were Eusebius’ writings which was a mixture of the true Word of Elohim and the Greek philosophy of Origen and because Constantine was a philosopher, he accepted the writings of Eusebius-Origen. Constantine handed over the Eusebius-Origen Bible to the Roman Church and it served as the basis for Jerome’s Latin translation – the Vulgate. 

But Erasmus battled for the true Scriptures.

YaHUsha always quoted from the Old Testament.  He also quoted from the Greek O.T. known as the Septuagint. The title “Textus Receptus” was given to the M.S.S. by Elsevir in 1633.  It consists of a series of M.S.S.  The Textus Receptus constituted the translation-base for the original German Luther Bible, the translation of the New Testament into English by William Tyndale, the King James Version, the Spanish Reina-Valera translation, the Czech Bible of Kralice, and most Reformation-era New Testament translations.  

The T.R. was also the M.S.S. for the Syrian Church, the Waldensian Church of Northern Italy, the Gallic Churches in Scotland and Ireland and it is the text that the Church had preserved for centuries while being persecuted by the Roman Church, who used the corrupt Eusebius-Origen text.

It was in Antioch, the capital of Syria, that the believers were first called Christians.  It was here that the Textus Receptus was translated in 150 C.E. and it was called the “Peshitto”.  It was found in our time amoung the Pestorians who preserved it, as well as the Monophysites on the plains of Syria and the Maranites in the mountains of Lebanon.  It was not influenced by the Eusebius-Origen text.  Syria, northern Italy, southern France and England were thus reached by missionaries from Palestine and Asia Minor.

The Waldenses received the T.R. from Asia Minor and preserved it through the ages up to Erasmus, Luther, Beza and Calvin.  The Waldensian church preached the Word in the Valleys through the centuries and they were then bitterly persecuted and exterminated by the Roman Church.  They were simple people who opposed the Roman Catholic Church and they kept the Scriptures safe until the Reformation.  Jerome was then accused of perverting the Scriptures.

This video is a full documentary of the History of the Bible. 

An Adullam Films Production Written and Directed by Christian J. Pinto.