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Matthew 6:15 — “Their Trespasses”: Has the Warning about Forgiveness Been Reduced?
The final words their trespasses are absent from a notable early stream. Sinaiticus omits them; Vaticanus keeps them.
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The Authority Safeguard: Scripture Is the Final Court
Doctrinal judgment begins and ends beneath Holy Scripture; confessions and scholarship serve as real but subordinate witnesses.
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Inherited Theology and the Problem of Hidden Borrowing
No interpreter approaches Scripture without prior theology, but a reconstruction succeeds only when its material premises can be traced to the corpus under examination. This article distinguishes legitimate theological inheritance from hidden textual, translational, interpretive, and doctrinal borrowing.
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John Owen and the Learned Surrender He Refused
There is such a thing as learned error. A scholar may possess formidable languages, read rare manuscripts, command a vast bibliography, and still draw a mistaken conclusion. That possibility is generally admitted. Scholarship is a human activity, and human judgments are fallible.
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From Canon to Text
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended — Thesis 10.
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Matthew 6:25 — “What Ye Shall Eat, or What Ye Shall Drink”: The Full Saying on Anxiety
The words or what ye shall drink have uneven support. Some witnesses omit the whole phrase; others keep drink but change the connector between eating and drinking.
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The Identity Safeguard: A Lay Publication Is Not a Church Court
Confessional Bibliology must identify what kind of work it is, what authority it possesses, and what authority it does not possess.
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Negative Controls: Difficulties Shared by Received and Critical Texts
A fair reconstruction test must distinguish problems produced by a critical reading from difficulties already present in both the critical and received texts. Negative controls prevent false attribution, special pleading, and inflated verdicts.
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Richard Simon and the Roman Strategy of Textual Uncertainty
The preceding article examined John Owen’s refusal to let the learned apparatus become a court over Scripture. Nineteen years after Owen published that warning, Richard Simon supplied a remarkable demonstration of why it was necessary.
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Providential Preservation Is a Necessary Consequence of God’s Purpose in Inspiration
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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Matthew 6:28 — How the Lilies Grow: Competing Forms of Christ’s Illustration
The witnesses vary in the number and form of “grow,” in the order of the clauses, and in attempts to explain what lilies do not do. An Oxyrhynchus fragment preserves a related saying about not carding or…
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The Evidence Safeguard: Public Charges Require Public Proof
A public accusation must rest on material that readers can inspect, verify, and place in its proper source record.
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