Repeat the Method, Lose the Text
If competent editors can repeat the accepted critical process and produce a different Greek text, the process has not uniquely identified the church's final standard. Its translations inherit…
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Woide and Scrivener After the Damage
Woide reportedly saw the trace in 1765 but not in 1785. Scrivener saw a faint remnant in 1861. Their testimony makes deterioration part of the textual evidence.
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Providence Redefined: A Manuscript Treasury Is Not a Text
The preservation of manuscript evidence is a real providential good, but a treasury of divergent witnesses still requires an authorized rule to identify the church’s text.
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Aristeas and the Seventy: What the Story Does—and Does Not—Prove
The Letter of Aristeas is an ancient Jewish defense of a Greek Torah, not a dated archival certificate for one complete and miraculously inspired Greek Old Testament.
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When an Error About Preservation Becomes Heresy
This article marks the threshold between a mistaken view of preservation and a doctrinal system that destroys the church’s possession of Scripture.
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