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God or He Who? 1 Timothy 3:16 Does Change the Proposition
In 1 Timothy 3:16, one small group of strokes carries a large claim. The received Greek text reads Theos ephanerōthē en sarki: “God was manifest in the flesh.” The modern critical text reads hos ephanerōthē en sarki: “who was manifested in the…
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Providence Plus Textual Science: The Restoration Principle
Bahnsen’s assurance rests on providence together with textual criticism, while his rule that an imperfect text should yield to a superior one makes present textual identity reconstructionist in structure.
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Old Is Not Original: Antiquity, Attrition, and the Appeal to Age
An older manuscript may be historically valuable, but it is not thereby a more authentic manuscript. Date is chronology, not a divine or genealogical verdict.
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The Fathers Who Said Θεός: Chrysostom, Theodoret, and the Witness the Apparatus Cannot Count
Chrysostom and Theodoret do more than affirm the deity of Christ. Both cite 1 Timothy 3:16 as “God was manifest in the flesh” and expound the clause as apostolic Scripture. Their evidence must be weighed carefully, but it cannot be erased by…
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Why “Gnosticism” Must Remain Plural
The movements commonly grouped under Gnosticism did not confess one creed. A defensible textual indictment must name the teacher, the system, and the exact proposition before judging a reading.
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Book Review: Treatises Concerning the Scriptures
Treatises Concerning the Scriptures Bibliographical Notice John Owen, “Treatises Concerning the Scriptures,” in The Works of John Owen, vol. 16, ed. William H. Goold (supplied Goold edition). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict John Owen’s Treatises Concerning the Scriptures must be…
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Presuppositional Analysis: Treatises Concerning the Scriptures
Treatises Concerning the Scriptures: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question John Owen’s Treatises Concerning the Scriptures rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. The relevant Goold-volume treatises are “Of the Divine Original…
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The Woman They Put in Brackets: John 7:53–8:11 and the Canonical Cost
The story is known even by people who cannot place it in John. A woman is brought into the temple. Her accusers say she was taken in adultery. They ask whether the law of Moses requires her to be stoned, and they…
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‘God Has Not Promised Perfect Transmission’: From Kept Pure to Essential Purity
Bahnsen’s denial of promised perfect transmission answers claims confessional preservation does not make, then substitutes practical adequacy for Westminster’s confession of a text kept pure and presently authentic.
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Repeat the Method, Lose the Text
If competent editors can repeat the accepted critical process and produce a different Greek text, the process has not uniquely identified the church's final standard. Its translations inherit the same defect.
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Woide and Scrivener After the Damage
Woide reportedly saw the trace in 1765 but not in 1785. Scrivener saw a faint remnant in 1861. Their testimony makes deterioration part of the textual evidence.
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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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