The result was that type had to be prepared for 200 different characters instead of only twenty-four as in our alphabet. The second reason was the high prestige carried by the Latin Vulgate. Translations into the vernacular languages were not derogatory to the supremacy of the Latin text from which they stemmed. The problem was that the publication of the Greek New Testament offered to any scholar acquainted with both languages a tool with which it criticize and correct the official Latin Bible of the Church. This Latin Bible was the KJV of the day, and just as jealously defended.
History does repeat itself in many forms.
Before long, however, in 1514 the first printed Greek New Testament was printed as part of a Polyglot Bible. This magnificent edition of the Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin texts came to be known as the Complutesian Polyglot. What Greek manuscripts lie behind the text of the Complutesian New Testament have never been satisfactorily explained except much of it seems to have come from the library of Pope Leo X and his Apostolic Library. Froben had certainly heard of the soon to be published Spanish Polyglot Bible and, as any good business man, sensed that the market was more than ready for an edition of the GNT, wanted to capitalize upon that demand before Ximenes' work would be finished and authorized for publication. Froben made his proposal and offered to pay Erasmus as much as anyone else might offer for a job like this and it appears to have come at an opportune time for him.