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Bahnsen used infallibility in its strongest sense, yet confined it formally to the autographic text. The decisive issue is not vocabulary but the present locus of final authority.
Open record →A quotation must be read within the author's purpose, opponent, alternatives, qualifications, and wider argument.
Open record →Shared vocabulary can hide changed concepts; historical term ledgers expose semantic shift before continuity is claimed.
Open record →A disciplined hierarchy keeps primary text, whole-work context, period usage, controversy, and reception from being reversed or selectively used.
Open record →Historical meaning depends partly on document type: an individual treatise, adopted confession, church act, translation, and public standard do not speak in the same way.
Open record →Historical interpretation begins by recovering what an older source meant before using it in a modern argument.
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