Matthew 6:28 — How the Lilies Grow: Competing Forms of Christ’s Illustration
The witnesses vary in the number and form of “grow,” in the order of the clauses, and in attempts to explain what lilies do not do. An Oxyrhynchus…
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Providential Preservation Is a Necessary Consequence of God’s Purpose in Inspiration
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
Open record →The Hidden-Providence Escape Hatch: Continuity When Convenient, Recovery When Necessary
Tests whether appeals to secret providential preservation can exempt isolated or newly recovered readings from the evidential weight of public continuity.
Open record →Richard Simon and the Roman Strategy of Textual Uncertainty
The preceding article examined John Owen’s refusal to let the learned apparatus become a court over Scripture. Nineteen years after Owen published that warning, Richard Simon supplied a…
Open record →Negative Controls: Difficulties Shared by Received and Critical Texts
A fair reconstruction test must distinguish problems produced by a critical reading from difficulties already present in both the critical and received texts. Negative controls prevent false attribution,…
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