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A Distinction Must Be Maintained among the Text, Its Witnesses, and Its Editions
The inspired text, the manuscripts that witness it, and the editions that present it must be distinguished without separating the text from its providentially preserved witnesses.
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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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Infallibility Is Not the Weaker Word: Two Terms and Two Doctrinal Histories
Infallibility and inerrancy are now often treated as synonyms, while infallibility is also recast as a weaker promise that Scripture succeeds only in religious matters. The history is more exacting: Warfield did not coin inerrancy or cease using infallibility, but he did…
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Textual Criticism Is Legitimate Only as a Ministerial Discipline
Textual criticism is legitimate when it serves the preserved text under Scripture’s authority; it becomes illegitimate when scholarship is made the court that gives the text its identity.
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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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The Word That Cannot Fail: The Biblical and Reformed Doctrine of Infallibility
The historic Reformed doctrine begins with the God who cannot lie, proceeds to the God-breathed words that cannot be broken, and confesses that those words have been preserved in the authentic Hebrew and Greek Scriptures for the church’s present use.
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When the Original Cannot Be Produced: Lost Wills, Copies, and Proof of the Text
The disappearance of an autograph does not entail the loss of its words. Probate law distinguishes a missing instrument from proof of its precise terms; Scripture distinguishes perishable artifacts from the enduring text.
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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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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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The Received Greek and Hebrew Controls: Editions, History, and Fair Comparison
A fair reconstruction test requires identified received-text controls, not an undefined ‘TR’ or the KJV treated as inspired Greek and Hebrew. This article fixes the editions, historical checks, and comparison rules.
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The Inerrant Autograph: B. B. Warfield and the Making of Modern Inerrancy
Warfield did not invent the word inerrancy or the belief that Scripture is wholly true. He did give modern evangelicalism its most influential autographic form: inspiration and absolute errorlessness belong strictly to the original text, while criticism seeks that text through the…
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