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Matthew 19:17 — “Why Callest Thou Me Good?” The Rich Young Ruler and the Goodness of God
The rich young man calls Jesus “Good Master” and asks what good thing he must do to have eternal life. The Textus Receptus answers, “Why callest thou me good?” The critical text reads, “Why askest thou me…
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The Response Safeguard: Give a Fair Opportunity to Answer
Those criticized should receive a reasonable opportunity to answer where the seriousness and circumstances make a response appropriate.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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