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Inspiration Is an Act; the Inspired Word Is Its Enduring Product
Copyists are not inspired, but it does not follow that the inspired words cease to be Scripture when faithfully copied. Historic Reformed theology distinguishes act, agent, product, artifact, and textual identity.
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A Canon Given, Not Made
Canonical authority begins in God’s act, not the Church’s vote. Prophets and apostles delivered writings whose authority already existed; the Church’s task is to hear, guard, confess, and obey them.
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The Presuppositional Exception
Modern defenders of the critical text confess Scripture as their ultimate authority everywhere except at the point where the words of Scripture are identified. That exception exposes the method's deepest inconsistency.
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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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They Removed It from Their Copies: Augustine, the Woman Taken in Adultery, and the Witnesses That Cannot Be Counted
Augustine’s testimony concerning John 7:53–8:11 does not settle every question of transmission by itself. It does establish that a leading Father received the passage as Scripture, knew of copies without it, and reported a moral motive for its removal—evidence that a surviving-manuscript…
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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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Mark 7:19 — “Purging All Meats”: Grammar, Punctuation, and a Modern Interpretive Claim
The Greek word “cleansing” is overwhelmingly secure. The dispute concerns what it modifies and how editors punctuate the sentence: the bodily process or Jesus as narrator who thereby declared all foods clean.
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The Order of Historical Evidence: Text, Whole Work, Usage, Controversy, and Reception
A disciplined hierarchy keeps primary text, whole-work context, period usage, controversy, and reception from being reversed or selectively used.
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Who Drew the Flight Path?
A grave doctrinal conclusion is only as sound as the route used to reach it. Exact entailment requires the proposition, definitions, premises, warrants, and possible exits to be stated in full.
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Matthew 10:23 — “Flee Ye into Another”: The Text of Christ’s Persecution Instruction
At first glance this looks like a missing-verse dispute. It is not.
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