Hills realized that unless one accepted the dogma that the Byzantine text type was of late date, and hence unimportant, one could never gain credibility within the text criticism guild.… Whatever his compromises, by 1952, Hills was ready to return full circle to his historic Reformed roots and affirm, with the Westminster Confession, the priority of the Textus Receptus. Only now he would do so from fully within the inner sanctum sanctorum of the text criticism citadel.18 Hills’s first and major volume