When the Canons Collide: The Question That Exposes the Method
What happens when the harder reading is also the longer reading? That plain collision opens the deeper question of who has authority to rank the canons and constitute…
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Of the Holy Scripture I: The Westminster Question, the Critical Corpus, and the Catechism Map
The Westminster reconstruction test begins where Westminster begins: with Holy Scripture. This article fixes the historical target, names the critical corpus, maps the related Larger Catechism questions, and…
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Mark 2:26 — “In the Days of Abiathar the High Priest”: Error or Authentic Historical Reference?
The phrase about Abiathar appears in both received and principal critical texts, though some witnesses omit or modify it. The historical question turns on Greek idiom and the…
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How Do You Know? The Question That Decides Every Variant
The decisive question in every textual dispute is not merely what the manuscripts contain, but by what final authority the church identifies the Word of God.
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Mark’s wineskin saying has several competing grammatical forms. The received text states that new wine bursts old skins, the wine is spilled, the skins are marred, and new…
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Past Writers Must Be Allowed to Speak: Meaning Before Modern Use
Historical interpretation begins by recovering what an older source meant before using it in a modern argument.
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