Edward Freer Hills - Revelation 16:5, Romans 7:6 and more - Rick Norris quotes older editions

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Hills identified the KJV reading at Revelation 16:5 as “certainly erroneous” and as a “conjectural emendation by Beza” (Believing Bible Study, p. 83).

You should stop cherry-picking earlier editions, when it is done repeatedly it becomes one of the "criminal citation methods".

Here is the:

King James Bible Defended (1983 edition with Ted Letis Preface)

https://archive.org/details/TheKingJamesVersionDefended/page/n155/mode/2up

Are the readings which Erasmus thus introduced into the Textus Receptus necessarily erroneous'? By no means ought we to infer this. For it is inconceivable that the divine providence which had preserved the New Testament text during the long ages of the manuscript period should blunder when at last this text was committed to the printing press. According to the analogy of faith, then, we conclude that the Textus Receptus was a further step in God's providential preservation of the New Testament text and that these few Latin Vulgate readings which were incorporated into the Textus Receptus were genuine readings which had been preserved in the usage of the Latin-speaking Church. Erasmus, we may well believe, was guided providentially by the common faith to include these readings in his printed Greek New Testament text. In the Textus Receptus God corrected the few mistakes of any consequence which yet remained in the Traditional New Testament text of the majority of the Greek manuscripts.

https://archive.org/details/TheKingJamesVersionDefended/page/n159/mode/2up?q="16:5"&view=theater

Like Calvin, Beza introduced a few conjectural emendations into his New Testament text. In the providence of God, however, only two of these were perpetuated in the King James Version, namely, Romans 7:6 that being dead wherein instead of being dead to that wherein, and Revelation 16:5 shalt be instead of holy. In the development of the Textus Receptus the influence of the common faith kept conjectural emendation down to a minimum.

There is no mention anywhere of "certainly erroneous."
 
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