THE NUMBER OF THE CONTROVERSIES WHICH ARE CONCERNING THE WRITTEN WORD : AND OF THE FIRST CONTROVERSY, WHETHER THE SCRIPTURE BE THE WORD OF GOD. There be two kinds of controversies concerning the holy Scripture. The first kind is of such controversies as be more … Read More
James White, Inconsistency, & Lying
James White, Inconsistency, & Lying ##UPDATE#3 (29SEP2019): On the Dividing Line from 24 Sep 2019, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA9aoDtJx08) Mr. White attempted to deal with this post and failed multiple ways. First, he equivocated between disputed texts and words only used once in Scripture. But it is no … Read More
Are You a KJVO?
From time to time as one who holds to the Confessional (Biblical) Textual View you will be asked, Are You a KJVO? The very asking of this question when we are arguing not about a translation, but about which Greek & Hebrew texts the Scripture … Read More
Providentially Preserved?
Within Christendom there are two opposing views concerning the intent of the phrase by His [God’s] singular care and providence, [the Scriptures are] kept pure in all ages. Does it refer to a generic preservation that doesn’t guarantee textual purity throughout the historic life of God’s … Read More
The Genuineness of 1 John 5.7 by David Martin 2.7
CHAP. VII. Of the Manuscript of Berlin. ‘Tis here no longer that same Mr. Emlyn, who has been silent with regard to the Manuscripts mention’d in the Preface to the Louvain doctors, and that which F. Amelette affirm’d he saw at Rome; ’tis quite another thing … Read More
The Genuineness of 1 John 5.7 by David Martin 2.6
CHAP. VI. A Defence of the Manuscripts of Robert Stephens against certain Manuscripts produced from the Library of the King of France, which are pretended to be the same that Stephens used in his Editions. THE proof which all those who have wrote before me … Read More
The Genuineness of 1 John 5.7 by David Martin 2.5
CHAP. V. Of the obelus plac’d in the middle of the 7th Verse, There are three in heaven, &c. of the Manuscripts mention’d by the Divines of Louvain, and of that which F. Amelotte says he saw at Rome. WE have seen that among the … Read More
The Genuineness of 1 John 5.7 by David Martin 2.4
Of Robert Stephen’s Manuscripts WE have seen in the foregoing Chapter the extreme perplexity in which Mr. Simon arid Mr. Emlyn are found with reference to the Manuscripts of Complutum and Erasmus; they could not extricate themselves but by denying that the passage of St. … Read More
The Genuineness of 1 John 5.7 by David Martin 2.3
CHAP. III. The passage of St. John proved to be genuine from the Greek Manuscripts with some particular considerations upon the Manuscripts of Laurentius Valla, upon that of Complutum, and that of England or the Codex Britannicus. IT would be very surprizing that two of … Read More
The Genuineness of 1 John 5.7 by David Martin 2.2
CHAP. II. Of the first Greek Editions, in which the Text of the three witnesses in heaven is read, and of those in which this Text is not inserted. Before I come to speak of the Greek Manuscripts which serve to defend the truth of … Read More