We all know there is no such thing as "THE GREEK TEXT." There never has been. When John wrote his original "Greek text" (90 A.D.) there wasn't one Greek text on earth that contained Paul's original of 1Thessalonians or Galatians, and if there was it wasn't in any book containing "THE GREEK TEXTS" of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Peter. "THE GREEK TEXT," like Santa Claus and the Big Bad Wolf, is stuck in the chimney. There are about thirty Greek texts: Mill, Walton, Fell, Tischendorf, Griesbach, Semler, Hug, Lachmann, Nestle, Aland, Metzger, Erasmus, Colinaeus, Elzevir, Alford, Souter, Beza, etc.). But the term is a "historic position" because it suggests, without SAYING it, that the ONE ("THE") true Greek text is in the hands of a depraved Bible critic who is altering your King James Bible. There are no exceptions to this rule: not one.
This explains why people have such a fit when you suggest that an uneducated man CAN correct "the Greek" with the English. Their sudden blaze of self-righteous, holy indignation and Fundamentalist zeal to protect "the original languages" appears to be sound Christian reasoning. The lie has been so firmly implanted in the minds of the laymen that they are simply carried away with the "logic" of it when the apostate roars, "Blasphemy! Who ever heard of such a thing? "Heresy! Why, think of correcting the God-given language of the Holy Spirit with a translation!" "Catholicism! This is what Rome did by using the Latin instead of going to THE ORIGINAL GREEK!" Und so weiter.