Whose better to prove the -author claims- than those who have participated to the reform ...
textus receptus was used by original KJV (1611)
The majority text (also known as the Byzantine or Syrian text) was used by the reformists to be used in the new bibles versions.
Source:
Westcott & Hort vs. Textus Receptus: Which is Superior?
By Douglas Kutilek
5/24/96
..."Furthermore, a careful distinction must be made between the
textus receptus (even in its broadest collective sense) on the one hand, and the majority text (also known as the Byzantine or Syrian text) on the other. Though the terms
textus receptus and majority text are frequently used as though they were synonymous, they by no means mean the same thing. (7) When the majority text was being compiled by Hodges and Farstad, their collaborator Pickering estimated that their resultant text would differ from the
textus receptus in over 1,000 places (8); in fact, the differences amounted to 1,838. (9) In other words, the reading of the majority of Greek manuscripts differs from the
textus receptus (Hodges and Farstad used an 1825 Oxford reprint of Stephanus' 1550 text for comparison purposes) in 1,838 places, and in many of these places, the text of Westcott and Hort agrees with the majority of manuscripts against the
textus receptus. The majority of manuscripts and Westcott and Hort agree against the
textus receptus in excluding Luke 17:36; Acts 8:37; and I John 5:7 from the New Testament, as well as concurring in numerous other readings (such as "tree of life" in Revelation 22:19). Except in a few rare cases, writers well-versed in textual criticism have abandoned the
textus receptus as a standard text. (10)