The Codex Was Alexandrinus
The remembered nineteenth-century testimony was real, but it concerned Codex Alexandrinus—not Vaticanus, and not principally Sinaiticus. Getting the manuscript right changes the whole inquiry.
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Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
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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Heresy Is Not a Pejorative: Why the Church Needs Exact Words
This opening article explains why the church must use the words heresy and heretic carefully, precisely, and only according to Scripture and the Reformed tradition.
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The House upon the Sure Foundation
The Church did not give the Word of God its authority, and textual critics do not give it identity. The prophetic and apostolic Scriptures, with Christ as the…
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No Brute Facts: Manuscripts Do Not Interpret Themselves
A manuscript’s date, wording, location, and genealogical relations are real facts. Their textual significance is not self-interpreting. Bahnsen’s doctrine of facts requires a theological account of the evidence.
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Building the Westminster Proof-Text Dataset
A whole-system reconstruction cannot be run from anecdotes. It requires a versioned ledger linking atomic Westminster propositions to every proof passage, textual event, translation choice, premise, control result,…
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