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Textus Receptus - Default Text or Chosen Text?
One of the oft made claims of a popular apologist in evangelical circles is that the Reformers did not choose the Textus Receptus, but that they used it because they had no other options. Is that true? Were there no other Greek…
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‘Redeemed Us’ and ‘His Wrath’: Revelation 5:9 and 6:17
NA29 restores two received pronouns in Revelation: the heavenly singers say that the Lamb redeemed ‘us,’ and the day of judgment is the day of ‘his’ wrath. Both reversals expose losses in NA28.
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Canon Collision Casebook III: 1 Timothy 3:16 and 1 John 5:7–8
The readings at 1 Timothy 3:16 and 1 John 5:7–8 require paleography, grammar, patristic and versional evidence, reception, and rival histories that no single canon can control.
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Acts: Vision, Prayer, and ‘Jesus Christ’
Acts supplies a compact test of the new edition: one departure from the received account of Saul’s vision and two returns to the Authorized Version’s wording concerning prayer and faith in Jesus Christ.
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Canon Collision Casebook II: Romans 5:1 and Acts 20:28
Romans 5:1 shows internal evidence overruling stronger witnesses, while Acts 20:28 shows that two rival readings may each be difficult in a different way.
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Mark: ‘Son of God,’ the Twelve, and ‘the Lord’
Three changes in Mark expose three earlier critical judgments: misplaced doubt at Mark 1:1, surplus wording around the Twelve, and an expanded title in the traditional ending. In each case NA29 returns to the TR/AV form.
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Canon Collision Casebook I: Mark 1:2 and Matthew 24:36
Mark 1:2 sets harder against shorter and broader reception; Matthew 24:36 sets difficulty against anti-harmonization. Neither variation unit is decided by one familiar maxim.
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What Presuppositionalism Does—and Does Not—Entail About the Text
Presuppositionalism rules out neutrality and an autonomous textual court, but it does not mechanically prove one printed edition or settle every variant without exegesis, confession, history, and evidence.
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When the Critical Text Moves Toward the Received Text
Many announced NA29 changes restore readings found in the Textus Receptus and Authorized Version. Those reversals do not grant the received text new authority; they expose the fallibility of the editions that first departed from it.
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‘No Doctrine Is Affected’ Is Not an Answer
A doctrine may survive elsewhere while a changed reading removes, weakens, or redirects what one passage says. The proper question is not whether Christianity survives, but what exact scriptural proposition has changed.
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Scrivener’s Apparatus: A Citation Is Not a Manuscript
Scrivener’s collations and apparatuses are indispensable historical evidence, but an apparatus is a scholarly report about witnesses. It must be checked against the manuscripts, editions, and scope of the claim it is asked to support.
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The Critical Text Changes Again: What the 169 Decisions Are
NA29 will differ from NA28 at 169 main-text locations in Mark, Acts, and Revelation. Before asking what those changes mean, we must state what is changing and name the standard by which it will be judged.
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