Scrivener's Textus Receptus

This edition of the Textus Receptus is by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener who first produced the Greek text representing the Authorized Version of 1611. Because the translators of the KJV never produced the Greek text, Scrivener reversed engineered the text matching various readings (Beza and Stephanus) to English used by the translators.


Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, LL.D. (September 29, 1813, Bermondsey, Surrey – October 30, 1891, Hendon, Middlesex) was an important text critic of the New Testament and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version of the Bible. He was prebendary of Exeter, and vicar of Hendon.


Graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1835 after studying at Southwark, he became a teacher of classics at a number of schools in southern England, and from 1846 to 1856 was headmaster of a school in Falmouth, Cornwall. He was also for 15 years rector of Gerrans, Cornwall.