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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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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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Mark 5:41 — Talitha Cumi: The Aramaic Command and Its Greek Transmission
The Aramaic command survives in several spellings, especially “cumi” and “cum.” The received feminine form suits the girl addressed, while both forms could sound alike in later pronunciation.
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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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Matthew 10:37–42 — Loving Family, Loving Christ, and the Cup of Cold Water: Two Related Variants
Two details in the closing charge to the Twelve are sometimes pulled into textual debates. One is a full line about loving son or daughter more than Christ.
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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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Matthew 11:2 — Did John Send “Two of His Disciples” or “through His Disciples”?
The Greek difference between “two” and “through” is small on the page and plain in English. The Textus Receptus says John sent two of his disciples.
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Matthew 11:19 — Wisdom Justified by Her Children or by Her Works?
Jesus ends his answer to a fault-finding generation with a proverb. The received text says wisdom is justified by her children.
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Not an Intramural Debate: The Textual Question Concerns What God Has Spoken
The textual question cannot be confined to an academic side room. It asks which words constitute the inspired, preserved, authentic rule by which every doctrine, translation, sermon, and controversy must be judged.
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Preservation Is an Act of God’s Special Providence toward His Church
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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Matthew 11:23 — Shall Capernaum Be Exalted to Heaven or Has It Already Been Exalted?
Is Jesus describing Capernaum’s present height, or asking whether it expects to be raised? The received text says the city is exalted to heaven.
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Matthew 12:8–25 — Lord of the Sabbath, Healing Multitudes, and Knowing Their Thoughts: Four Confessional Variants
Four small readings run through the next part of Matthew 12. None removes a miracle or reverses a doctrine.
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