Hort’s Ascendancy and Scrivener’s Resistance
The Revision Company never formally adopted Westcott and Hort’s edition, yet a fellow Reviser testified that Hort persuaded the Company of the general soundness of his theory. Scrivener’s…
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Matthew 5:27 — “Said by Them of Old Time”: The Fuller Introduction to the Seventh Commandment
The phrase by them of old time is missing from the modern critical text and from the reconstructed Byzantine majority text. The Textus Receptus stands here as a…
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The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of Neutrality: Why God’s Revelation Cannot Be Authenticated by a Higher Human Court
Scripture bears God’s own authority and cannot be authenticated by a higher neutral court; evidence and reason serve beneath its self-attesting testimony.
Open record →Matthew 5:22 — “Without a Cause”: Does Christ Condemn Every Form of Anger?
The words without a cause are absent from several important early witnesses. The Textus Receptus keeps the Greek adverb εἰκῇ.
Open record →Matthew 5:13 — “Cast Out and Trodden Under Foot”: Has the Salt Saying Been Shortened?
The shorter reading does more than remove and. It recasts the final verbs.
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