
Post · August 19, 2026The received and modern critical texts call Jesus “the carpenter.” Some witnesses change the phrase to “the carpenter’s son,” apparently aligning Mark with Matthew and avoiding a description…
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Post · August 18, 2026Scrivener worked backward from the Authorized Version to identify the translators’ earlier Greek choices. He did not translate English into Greek or invent those choices in 1881. The…
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Post · August 18, 2026The preservation clause in WCF 1.8 must be read with its stated consequence: an authentic Hebrew and Greek text to which the church may finally appeal.
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Post · August 17, 2026The Greek word “cleansing” is overwhelmingly secure. The dispute concerns what it modifies and how editors punctuate the sentence: the bodily process or Jesus as narrator who thereby…
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Post · August 17, 2026The Aramaic command survives in several spellings, especially “cumi” and “cum.” The received feminine form suits the girl addressed, while both forms could sound alike in later pronunciation.
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Post · August 16, 2026TBS’s appeal to the overwhelming transmission of Mark 16 is a powerful internal criticism of critical-text weighting. It becomes inconsistent only if it is made an absolute counting…
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