Young produced a "Revised Version" of the translation in 1887, which was based on the Westcott-Hort Text that was completed in 1885. There has been controversy surrounding the Westcott-Hort Text (which is no longer used in modern translations), among a small percentage of church goers who will only use the KJV, because of variations in the Greek manuscripts that appear in modern texts that were unknown at the time the Textus Receptus was published. After Robert Young died on October 14, 1888, the publisher released a new Revised Edition in 1898.
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