Who Is the Court? Ministerial and Magisterial Textual Criticism
The real divide is not between people who compare manuscripts and people who refuse to do so. It is between textual work that serves Scripture and textual work…
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Of the Holy Scripture II: Necessity, Canon, and Authority
Westminster Confession 1.1–1.4 says more than that God once inspired writings. It confesses the necessity of written revelation, a defined canon, the exclusion of the Apocrypha, and an…
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Text, Witness, Edition, and Translation
The argument over TBS repeatedly collapses four different things: the inspired text, manuscript witnesses, printed editions, and translations. Keeping them distinct exposes why manuscript counting, historical collation, and…
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The Text We Have: What Confessional Bibliology Actually Affirms
Confessional Bibliology names an original-language standard and distinguishes it from the history of printed editions and from the Authorized Version as an English translation.
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Mark 7:4 — Washings of Cups, Pots, Brasen Vessels, and Tables
The list of inherited washings ends with “tables” or “couches” in the received text. Some witnesses omit the item because washing dining couches sounded incongruous.
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Mark 4:40 — “How Is It That Ye Have No Faith?” The Full Rebuke after the Storm
After stilling the storm, Jesus asks either why the disciples have no faith or whether they still have no faith. The difference is one small adverb with a…
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