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The Codex Was Alexandrinus
The remembered nineteenth-century testimony was real, but it concerned Codex Alexandrinus—not Vaticanus, and not principally Sinaiticus. Getting the manuscript right changes the whole inquiry.
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Arbitrariness: The Unproved Decisions Behind the Text
Modern textual criticism possesses evidence, learning, and elaborate tools. The prior question is whether its selection and weighting of that evidence escape mere opinion, relativism, unargued bias, and conjecture.
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Mark 2:26 — “In the Days of Abiathar the High Priest”: Error or Authentic Historical Reference?
The phrase about Abiathar appears in both received and principal critical texts, though some witnesses omit or modify it. The historical question turns on Greek idiom and the Samuel narrative, not on an automatic assumption of error.
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Lane Keister, Matthew 5:18, and Exact Confessional Entailment
Lane Keister expressly affirms providential preservation and denies that Matthew 5:18 teaches it. Exact doctrinal judgment requires us to distinguish his profession, his exegesis, and the adequacy of his preservation model.
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The Claims on Trial: What Wes Huff Says About the Biblical Text
I have watched Christians breathe easier when an apologist says that the Bible has not been lost. I understand the relief. The believer has heard the usual litany: thousands of manuscripts, hundreds of thousands of variants, no surviving autograph, and a succession…
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When the Canons Collide: The Question That Exposes the Method
What happens when the harder reading is also the longer reading? That plain collision opens the deeper question of who has authority to rank the canons and constitute the text of Scripture for the Church.
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Mark 3:29 — Eternal Damnation or Eternal Sin? The Warning against Blasphemy
The warning ends with either “eternal judgment” or “eternal sin.” Both readings exclude forgiveness, but they describe the offender’s condition from different angles.
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Mark 3:14 — “Whom He Also Named Apostles”: Addition or Omission?
The Textus Receptus moves from the appointment of the Twelve directly to their purpose. Many witnesses insert “whom he also named apostles,” the exact naming clause found in Luke 6:13.
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The Arius We Are Testing
Before a biblical reading can be called Arian, Arianism must be reduced to exact historical propositions rather than used as a loose term for any weakening of a proof text.
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Building Another Foundation
Modern textual reconstruction does not merely collect old stones. It assembles a new judicial foundation: an editorial text whose identity rests upon fallible and revisable decisions, yet which is asked to bear the divine titles of the authentic Word.
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What ‘Kept Pure in All Ages’ Actually Confesses
The original grammar, proof texts, polemical setting, and final-appeal clause of WCF 1.8 identify a preserved Hebrew and Greek text—not merely surviving doctrine or scattered textual possibilities.
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Manuscripts, Versions, and the Fathers: Calamy''s Second Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Calamy answers the case from Greek manuscripts, ancient versions, and patristic silence, then weighs the Latin and African witnesses available to him.
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