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Scrivener and Revelation 22: The Citation Is Not the Case
Scrivener’s observations about Erasmus and Revelation are important but often made to carry conclusions they do not state. A citation is the beginning of an inquiry into a reading, not the end of the case.
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Erasmus, Vaticanus, and the Comma: What the Familiar Story Leaves Out
There is a version of the history of 1 John 5:7 that can be told before the coffee cools. Erasmus could not find the heavenly witnesses in Greek. He rashly promised to print them if anyone produced one Greek copy. A manuscript…
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Preservation as the Test Case
Biblical preservation concerns the words God gave and kept for the continuing faith and final appeal of the church. A surviving pool of evidence is not yet the confessional doctrine.
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Scrivener’s Reconstruction: Greek Authority and English Evidence
F. H. A. Scrivener reconstructed the Greek textual basis represented by the Authorized Version. His method began with the English historical question but required Greek authority for the answers; it was not an English-to-Greek translation project.
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The Back-Translation Charge: Evidence, Not Enumeration
A claim that Erasmus invented Greek from Latin must identify the Greek form, Latin source, edition, and later transmission. Counting “five” or “six” verses without that work is rhetoric, not a demonstrated textual history.
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The Rush to Print: Speed Is Not a Textual Theory
Erasmus’s 1516 edition was produced quickly. That fact does not prove the familiar commercial-race story, nor can it establish a particular reading without a reading-specific argument.
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 4: The Borrowed Bible and the God Who Kept His Word
The critical-text position borrows the authority of a Bible whose public identity it cannot ground. Christ's promise requires an available and identifiable written Word; the confessional doctrine of preservation supplies it.
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Repeat the Method, Lose the Text
If competent editors can repeat the accepted critical process and produce a different Greek text, the process has not uniquely identified the church's final standard. Its translations inherit the same defect.
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The Foundation Remains
The failure of reconstructive authority cannot destroy the authentic Word. Christ remains the chief cornerstone, the prophetic-apostolic foundation remains available, and the Church may build again through confession, reception, rigorous ministerial scholarship, and faithful translation.
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Revelation’s Missing Ending: Evidence, Limits, and Later Editions
The alleged back-translation of Revelation’s ending is regularly stated as a fixed fact, although the number of verses changes with the retelling. Erasmus’s own statements establish a narrower history, which must be traced reading by reading and edition by edition.
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The Canons Have No Umpire: Dabney Vindicated and Refined
Dabney’s 1881 criticism of the Revised Version sharpens the ecclesial issue, but his case must be retained without treating him as infallible or freezing nineteenth-century evidence.
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When a Text Becomes Public: Printing, Preservation, and the End of Manuscript Necessity
Printing did not inspire an editor or create Scripture. It did make a received text publicly stable and widely accessible, so that the church's possession of the Word no longer depended upon the survival of particular manuscript artifacts.
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