The Battle Lost Before the First Variant Is Examined
A method that begins with a possibly lost Bible can produce only a possibly recovered Bible; confessional certainty must govern before the first variant is weighed.
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When Criticism Serves the Word: What Is Ministerial Textual Criticism?
Ministerial textual criticism uses manuscripts, versions, history, grammar, and reason as servants of the original-language Scriptures God has already given and preserved.
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Matthew 1:25 — “Her Firstborn Son” or Simply “a Son”?
The Textus Receptus says Mary bore her firstborn son. The critical text reads more briefly, “she bore a son.” Between those forms stand manuscripts that keep firstborn but…
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The Supreme Judge of All Religious Controversies
The Reformed doctrine neither enthrones the church nor the individual: every council, teacher, scholar, and private judgment stands beneath the Holy Ghost speaking in Scripture.
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What Convocation Actually Authorized
The Revisers were not forbidden to consider Greek variants. Their own rules expressly authorized textual changes when the evidence was judged decidedly preponderating. The real controversy begins after…
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