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some staunch KJB defender wrote:

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Much has been written and said about W&H, some doubtless true, and some doubtless exaggerated. That which is most probably true is that they were Unitarians, and this is quite well documented in their commentaries and elsewhere where Hort argued for the Divinity rather than Deity of Christ. From the time he was 21 or so, Hort had stated that he could not be sure of the infallibility of God's Word, and there is no evidence that he changed this stance in later years.

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i haven't seen any evidence of this ... to the contrary, i think Hort's commentaries were widely accepted in Fundamentalist circles before the KJBO spread in the 1980s.

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It is respecting the Deity of Christ that most of W&Hs changes were directed, the most famous of which is the text of 1Tim 3:16, And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory, which they changed to, he was manifest in the flesh. Dean Burgon spent six months arduously collating codices and writings of the Early Church Fathers and Versions to prove without doubt, in a 76-page document to the RV Committee, that 89 out of 90 of the codices reviewed in addition to other evidences all supported the TR rendering God was manifest in the flesh. The only two notable codices that did not support this original reading are B and .

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i don't think it was Westcott's fault that those 2 (or more) "notable codices" existed, or that the majority of the MSS differed. isn't it blathering nonsense, tho, to suggest that Westcott shd attack the deity of Christ? to think that he was (n still is in many circles) for bible believers THE authority on the Book of Hebrews, among other NT books!