Many modern Christians argue for the Textus Receptus (TR) over the Nestle–Aland (Critical Edition, NA) out of ignorance. Often, textual criticism and higher criticism are conflated, but these are two very different things.
The men who gave their names (and much of their lives) to the production and maintenance of the NA were both faithful and dutiful Lutheran scholars. Here are their graves, infra. You may recognize that as a fig tree in the case of Dr. Nestle:
Micah 4:4 (ESV):
»but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,
and no one shall make them afraid,
for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.«
The Latin on Dr. Aland’s headstone reads:
‘Here he expects the Resurrection’
We would do well to pay better and more careful attention to the reality of these things instead of the histrionics of detractors.
