When Textual Criticism Becomes Magisterial
Textual criticism becomes magisterial when an indefinitely continuing scholarly reconstruction is made the court that gives Scripture its identity.
Open record →Category: Confessional Bibliology
259 published records in this controlled archive.
Matthew 23:8, 13–14 — “One Is Your Master, Even Christ” and the Missing Woe
The Textus Receptus names Christ at verse 8 and includes a woe against scribes and Pharisees at verse 14. The critical text omits “even Christ” in verse 8…
Open record →Why the ESV Is Not Simply the Critical Text in English
The ESV is a useful English witness to a critical-edition-based process, but translation, interpretation, inherited wording, textual exceptions, and footnotes prevent it from being treated as the critical…
Open record →Matthew 22:30, 37 — Angels in Heaven and Loving God: Two Westminster Proof-Text Variants
Two small omissions touch statements used in doctrinal proof. The Textus Receptus says the risen are like the angels of God in heaven.
Open record →The Pastoral-Purpose Safeguard: Defend, Protect, Correct, and Recover
Polemics must aim at defending truth, protecting readers, correcting error, and recovering offenders—not merely punishing enemies.
Open record →Matthew 21:29–44 — Which Son Repented, and Does the Stone Saying Belong?
Few short parables have a more tangled manuscript record. In the received form, the first son refuses and then repents; the second promises and does nothing; the hearers…
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