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The Stream Cannot Correct the Fountain
A Greek translation may preserve ancient evidence and serve the Church as a valuable witness. It cannot become the judge of the inspired Hebrew text from which its authority is derived.
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The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception
Alternate title: A Conditional Resolution of the Apparent Paradox of Self-Deception
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California, 1978; later Covenant Media Foundation edition.
Bahnsen examines the apparent paradox of self-deception: how a person can in some sense know a truth while believing or professing its contrary. He evaluates influential philosophical accounts of belief, intention, motivation, awareness, and other-deception, states seven criteria for an adequate theory,…
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Bruce M. Metzger
Bruce Manning Metzger was an American Presbyterian minister and Princeton scholar whose textbooks, critical-edition work, and translation leadership made him one of the most influential Anglophone textual critics of the twentieth century.
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Eldon Jay Epp
Eldon Jay Epp was an American New Testament textual critic whose work on Codex Bezae, textual clusters, race, and the concept of the original text broadened the discipline beyond selecting individual readings.
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Gordon D. Fee
Gordon Fee was a Pentecostal New Testament scholar known for textual studies, Pauline and Johannine exegesis, and widely used works on interpretation.
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Mark 15:39 — What Did the Centurion See When He Confessed the Son of God?
The received text says the centurion saw how Jesus cried out and expired. The critical form omits the cry and says he saw how Jesus breathed his last.
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Mark 10:24 — “For Them That Trust in Riches”: Qualification or Authentic Saying?
The received text locates the danger in trusting riches. The critical form says simply that entering God’s kingdom is hard, a more general statement that explains the disciples’ astonishment differently.
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Mark 11:22 — “Have Faith in God”: Objective Genitive, Subjective Genitive, or a False Dilemma?
The principal Greek text is stable: “have faith of God.” The issue is how the genitive functions. In context it is an objective genitive, idiomatically rendered “have faith in God.”
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Mark 3:32 — “Thy Brethren and Thy Sisters”: Does the Reference to the Sisters Belong?
Some witnesses tell Jesus that his mother, brothers, and sisters are outside. The received text mentions only his mother and brothers, agreeing with the family’s arrival and Jesus’ reply.
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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 9:23 — “If Thou Canst Believe” or “If Thou Canst”? Who Is Being Challenged?
Jesus either challenges the father’s ability to believe or takes up the father’s own words, “If thou canst.” Both lead to the declaration that all things are possible to the believer.
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Mark 9:24 — “Lord, I Believe” and “with Tears”: The Full Cry of the Child’s Father
The received cry includes tears and addresses Jesus as Lord. The shorter critical form retains the father’s confession and plea but omits both details.
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