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The Same Words, Another Doctrine: Lane Keister, Equivocation, and the Ninth Commandment
Shows that Lane Keister’s claim of precise agreement on preservation depends upon giving the historic term a different aggregate and reconstructive meaning, then applies the Ninth Commandment to the resulting public equivocation without alleging knowledge of his heart.
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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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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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The Pastoral-Purpose Safeguard: Defend, Protect, Correct, and Recover
Polemics must aim at defending truth, protecting readers, correcting error, and recovering offenders—not merely punishing enemies.
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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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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 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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The Traditional Text Must Be Evaluated as a Providential Whole
Modern textual criticism habitually presents each textual variant as an independent contest.
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Correcting the Scrivener: Mistake, Reformation, and the Testator’s Actual Intention
A copyist’s mistake is corrected by returning to the author’s actual words, not by improving his general purpose. Modern will-reformation cases sharpen the line between ministerial correction and editorial creation.
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