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Inspiration and Preservation: Distinct Acts, Inseparable Ends
Inspiration produced the God-breathed Scriptures; preservation conserves that inspired text through history. The acts differ in mode and instruments while serving one divine purpose: an abiding written rule for the church.
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The Woman the Churches Remembered: Didascalia, Didymus, Ambrose, Jerome, and the Limits of Patristic Evidence
The early evidence for the woman taken in adultery is neither a single unbroken manuscript chain nor an empty silence. This article weighs what the Didascalia, Didymus, Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine actually establish about the story, its Gospel reception, and its place…
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Kept Pure in All Ages: WCF 1.8 and Its Historical Referent
The preservation clause in WCF 1.8 must be read with its stated consequence: an authentic Hebrew and Greek text to which the church may finally appeal.
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The Translator Is Not a Prophet
Faithful translation is a ministerial work under inspired Scripture. It can truly communicate God’s Word without repeating inspiration, creating new revelation, or placing the translator above his source.
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Of the Holy Scripture I: The Westminster Question, the Critical Corpus, and the Catechism Map
The Westminster reconstruction test begins where Westminster begins: with Holy Scripture. This article fixes the historical target, names the critical corpus, maps the related Larger Catechism questions, and distinguishes the survival of a doctrine from its full derivation.
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Manuscripts Are Witnesses, Not the Word’s Magisterial Judges
Confessional Bibliology does not reject manuscript evidence. It assigns manuscripts their proper office: real and necessary witnesses that serve the authentic text without constituting its authority.
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It Pleased the Lord
Natural revelation closes every mouth, but it does not open the mystery of redemption. Creation declares the power, wisdom, and goodness of its Maker. Providence confronts humanity with dependence upon his sustaining hand. Conscience bears witness to his moral claim. Yet neither…
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Prayer, Obedience, and the Equal Honour of the Son
Christ’s prayers, obedience, and reception of authority belong to his true humanity and mediatorial office; his reception of divine worship reveals his eternal equality with the Father.
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UBS6: The Current Greek Text and the Published Proxy for NA29
UBS6 is the newest published Greek main text and is officially identified with the Greek text intended for NA29. Its role must be distinguished from NA28, the ESV, the ECM, and the still-forthcoming complete NA29 edition.
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“Tweaking,” “Plus,” and “Minus”: The Rhetoric by Which Critical Revision Becomes Neutral
Shows how apparently neutral terms such as plus, minus, and tweaking can conceal the editorial and ecclesiastical consequences of textual decisions.
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Preservation Entails the Public Availability of the Authentic Text
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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NA29 and Edition Drift: What Changes When the Standard Changes?
NA29 will not merely reprint NA28. This article defines edition drift, identifies the changes already published in UBS6, and establishes the controls required whenever a theological claim appeals to ‘the critical text.’
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