Karl Lachmann (1793–1851), was the first who broke with the Textus Receptus.
There is no evidence of any official decision to universally disallow translations following the incident at Metz until the Council of Trent, at which time the Reformation threatened the Catholic Church, and the rediscovery of the Greek New Testament presented new problems for translators.
In his memoirs Wakefield records that the work was laborious particularly in the comparison of the Oriental versions with the received text, but was well received and "much more profitable to me than all my other publications put together".
Ovadal is a staunch defender of the Received Text, but opposes some of the teachings of such individuals as Peter Ruckman and Gail Riplinger.