Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode we are talking about

Robert Istien. That is his French name. It is Roberta Stephanus in Latin.

Stephanus was born in 1503 in Paris.

That is where he lived and worked for most of his life.

He died in 1559.

His life perfectly corresponds to the Reformation and its early formative decades.

Stephanis's father was an established Paris printer and so is to Fannis when he came of age he took

over the family business. He married a woman named Perrette and her dad was a printer as well. They had four children together, two went on to be

prominent printers in their own right. Well one of the first projects that Roberta Stophanes undertook was a Latin Bible.

He then published numerous Latin texts of the classics, and even Greek texts of the philosophers

and the poets and the great

great thinkers. He published a Latin dictionary,

a French dictionary. But he comes to us in church history

because of his Greek New Testament. He first printed a Greek New Testament.

He first printed a Greek New Testament in 1546.

Prior to this, it was the Erasmus text.

And so Stephanus put out his text in 1546 after a few revisions and a few

additions and much time was spent compiling even more manuscripts from monasteries

scattered throughout Europe.

In 1550, Stephanish published what has come to be known as the Textus Receptus.

That Latin expression means the received text.

This was hugely influential,

...