Before the Stroke Faded
The earliest English collators treated Alexandrinus as reading θεός, but their evidence must be weighed honestly. Collational silence is not the same thing as a described inspection.
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What Scrivener Actually Reconstructed
Scrivener worked backward from the Authorized Version to identify the translators’ earlier Greek choices. He did not translate English into Greek or invent those choices in 1881. The…
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Inspiration and Preservation: Distinct Acts, Inseparable Ends
Inspiration produced the God-breathed Scriptures; preservation conserves that inspired text through history. The acts differ in mode and instruments while serving one divine purpose: an abiding written rule…
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Kept Pure in All Ages: WCF 1.8 and Its Historical Referent
The preservation clause in WCF 1.8 must be read with its stated consequence: an authentic Hebrew and Greek text to which the church may finally appeal.
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The Translator Is Not a Prophet
Faithful translation is a ministerial work under inspired Scripture. It can truly communicate God’s Word without repeating inspiration, creating new revelation, or placing the translator above his source.
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