Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam

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Dutch Renaissance humanist (c.1466–1536) whose Novum Instrumentum omne (1516) was the first printed Greek New Testament to reach publication. Its later editions became the base of the Textus Receptus — the Greek text underlying the King James Version and Reformation-era translations. Erasmus is central to the textual-criticism debate for two reasons. First, his enterprise itself is the beginning of printed NT text-criticism: he collated the handful of late Byzantine minuscules available to him at Basel and printed variant readings. Second, the Comma Johanneum (1 John 5:7–8, the explicit Trinitarian gloss) was absent from his first two editions; he added it only under pressure in his 1522 third edition, after a manuscript containing it was produced — a widely told episode in the history of the disputed passages, though the details of Erasmus's alleged "rash promise" are debated by historians. Not in corpus (his Latin/Greek editions are not ingested); represented in the article via the in-corpus apologetics hubs and patristic sources, with his own wording flagged {{UNSOURCED}} where quoted.