The dispensation was later made permanent, a considerable privilege at the time. To allow him to accept that post, he was given a temporary dispensation from his religious vows, although he still remained a priest. Erasmus was offered the position on account of his great skill in Latin and his reputation as a man of letters. Soon after his priestly ordination, he left the canonry when offered the post of secretary to the Bishop of Cambrai, Henry of Bergen.In 1492 Erasmus took his vows as a canon regular at Stein, in South Holland, and was ordained to the priesthood at the age of 25.He became proficient in Latin and at this school, for the first time Greek was taught at a lower level than university. From this point Erasmus was raised in a world of manuscripts. After his parents died, when he was just 9 years old, Erasmus was sent to a monastic school run by the clergy of the Lebuïnuskerk (St.Erasmus was born at Rotterdam in the Netherlands on October 27, 1466/9.He was the right man, at the right time, in the right place. The information supplied on his life and career, serves to show that nobody was more qualified to undertake the task of preserving God's word. It was his edition of the Greek New Testament which became the foundation of the Textus Receptus. Desiderius Erasmus was a renowned scholar and theologian.
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