Below is from Donald Clark's “Bible Version Manual” written in 1975:
“The King James Bible agrees with the Majority Text (95%) which was copied from the Greek Vulgate. ALL modern versions have departed from the God preserved majority Text and instead are taken from the “rejected heap.” The move to cast aside 95% out of every 100 Greek texts is the most serious attack on God's word that has ever been waged. The assumption of those who have departed from the Majority is a mockery of the faithfulness of God. Dean Burgon sums it up quite well:
“I am utterly disinclined to believe – so grossly improbable does it seem – that at the end of 1800 years 995 copies out of every thousand, suppose, will prove untrustworthy; and that one, two, three, four or five which remain, whose contents were till yesterday as good as unknown, will be found to have retained the secret of what the Holy Spirit originally inspired. I am utterly unable to believe, in short, that God's promise has so entirely failed, that at the end of 180 years much of the text of the Gospel had, in point of fact, to be picked by a German critic out of a waste-basket in the convent of St. Catherine; and that the entire text had to be remodeled after the pattern set by a couple of copies which had remained in neglect during fifteen centuries, and had probably owned their survival to that neglect; whilst hundreds of others had been thumbed to pieces, and bequeathed their witness to copies made from them.”
I trust some of you enjoyed Dean Burgon's summary on the findings of Westcott and Hort in 1881.
How anyone can read the newer versions after comparing them to the AV and call them “bibles” is beyond me!