a tenth edition appeared in 1611 after his death. The importance of Beza’s work lies in the extent to which his editions tended to popularize and establish as standard what came to be called the Textus Receptus (often referred to as the TR). The translators of the Authorized or King James Bible of 1611 made large use of Beza’s editions of 1588–1589 and 1598. The term Textus Receptus, as applied to the text of the NT, originated in an expression used by Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevir, printers in
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