Manuscripts Give Readings, Not Rankings
A manuscript directly supplies a reading, but its age, independence, character, and weight are conclusions reached through further historical judgments.
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Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
Providence Redefined: A Manuscript Treasury Is Not a Text
The preservation of manuscript evidence is a real providential good, but a treasury of divergent witnesses still requires an authorized rule to identify the church’s text.
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When an Error About Preservation Becomes Heresy
This article marks the threshold between a mistaken view of preservation and a doctrinal system that destroys the church’s possession of Scripture.
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What Textual Evidence Would Count as Arian?
A shorter or altered reading may weaken an anti-Arian proof without teaching Arianism. This article fixes the five doctrinal-effect classes and the proof required for a reading, an…
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Where Does Mark End? Mark 16:9–20 and the Price of an Abrupt Gospel
A reader reaches Mark 16:8 and finds the women fleeing the tomb. They tremble. They are amazed. They say nothing to anyone because they are afraid. Then, in…
Open record →The Canons Have No Umpire: Dabney Vindicated and Refined
Dabney’s 1881 criticism of the Revised Version sharpens the ecclesial issue, but his case must be retained without treating him as infallible or freezing nineteenth-century evidence.
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