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The ESV 2025: Its Stated Hebrew and Greek Bases
Crossway identifies BHS 1997, UBS5 corrected, and NA28 as the ESV 2025’s formal bases, while acknowledging consultation of other witnesses and selective departures. Those qualifications define how the translation may be used in this series.
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Matthew 20:16 — “Many Be Called, but Few Chosen”: Is the Conclusion Authentic?
The parable of the laborers ends in the received text with two sayings: “the last shall be first, and the first last,” and “many be called, but few chosen.” The critical text keeps the first and omits the…
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Matthew 20:22–23 — The Cup and the Baptism: Has Christ’s Saying Been Shortened?
The mother of James and John asks for thrones. Jesus answers with a cup and, in the received text, a baptism.
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Matthew 21:29–44 — Which Son Repented, and Does the Stone Saying Belong?
Few short parables have a more tangled manuscript record. In the received form, the first son refuses and then repents; the second promises and does nothing; the hearers correctly choose the first.
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Matthew 22:30, 37 — Angels in Heaven and Loving God: Two Westminster Proof-Text Variants
Two small omissions touch statements used in doctrinal proof. The Textus Receptus says the risen are like the angels of God in heaven.
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Bahnsen Against Bahnsen: The Question the Apologist Left Unfinished
Greg Bahnsen defended the self-attesting Word, rejected neutrality, and demanded Christian certainty. His doctrine of the extant biblical text did not consistently carry those principles through preservation, textual identity, and final authority.
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Why the ESV Is Not Simply the Critical Text in English
The ESV is a useful English witness to a critical-edition-based process, but translation, interpretation, inherited wording, textual exceptions, and footnotes prevent it from being treated as the critical text itself in another language.
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Matthew 23:8, 13–14 — “One Is Your Master, Even Christ” and the Missing Woe
The Textus Receptus names Christ at verse 8 and includes a woe against scribes and Pharisees at verse 14. The critical text omits “even Christ” in verse 8 and the whole of verse 14.
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When Textual Criticism Becomes Magisterial
Textual criticism becomes magisterial when an indefinitely continuing scholarly reconstruction is made the court that gives Scripture its identity.
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Matthew 24:36, 42 — “Neither the Son” and “What Hour”: The Text of Christ’s Watchfulness Warning
Two time words are disputed in Christ’s watchfulness discourse. At verse 36, the critical text adds “neither the Son” after the angels; the Textus Receptus does not.
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No Neutrality—Not Even in Textual Criticism
Collation can be technical, but no scholar interprets manuscript age, genealogy, scribal habits, or internal probability apart from controlling beliefs about God, history, authority, and preservation.
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Matthew 25:13, 31, 44 — The Son of Man’s Coming and the Final Judgment: Three Disputed Clauses
Three small clauses in Matthew 25 name Christ and his court. The Textus Receptus says the Son of man comes in verse 13, calls the angels holy in verse 31, and says the condemned answer him in verse 44.
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