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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Francis Turretin on the Heavenly Witnesses, Part III: The Witness of the Word and the Spirit
A new English rendering of Theses XVI–XX of Turretin's 1674 disputation on 1 John 5:7.
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Friends, Foes, and First Readers: Contemporary Reception as Historical Evidence
Contemporary reception can clarify how a work was heard, but praise, opposition, silence, and later summaries must be weighed rather than counted.
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