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Matthew 27:16–49 — Jesus Barabbas, Vinegar and Gall, Divided Garments, the King of Israel, and the Spear Thrust
The passion narrative carries several famous variants. Some early manuscripts call the released prisoner Jesus Barabbas.
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Building the Westminster Proof-Text Dataset
A whole-system reconstruction cannot be run from anecdotes. It requires a versioned ledger linking atomic Westminster propositions to every proof passage, textual event, translation choice, premise, control result, and bounded verdict.
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The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of a Higher Court
An ultimate authority cannot be certified by a more ultimate tribunal. The doctrine of Scripture must therefore explain how the self-attesting Word is recognized in extant words without making critical reconstruction its higher court.
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Evidence Is Not the Instrument: Manuscripts, Editions, and the Rule of Faith
Manuscripts and critical apparatuses are indispensable witnesses, but the rule of faith is the divine text to which they witness. Confusing evidence with Scripture reverses their proper authority.
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Difficult Variants Must Be Resolved Within the Received Text
The previous thesis argued that the traditional text must be evaluated as a providential whole. That conclusion immediately raises a practical question.
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The Archival-Continuity Safeguard: Preserve the Record of Change
Material revisions, corrections, and retractions must preserve a dated record of what changed, why it changed, and which version is current.
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What James White Answered—and What He Did Not
James White said he had fully refuted Chris Thomas’s charge. This article identifies the claim he answered, the question left open, and the exact confessional test that must govern the dispute.
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No Brute Facts: Manuscripts Do Not Interpret Themselves
A manuscript’s date, wording, location, and genealogical relations are real facts. Their textual significance is not self-interpreting. Bahnsen’s doctrine of facts requires a theological account of the evidence.
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What James White Calls ‘TR-Onlyism’
James White distinguishes several kinds of KJV and Received Text advocacy. The problem is not that no distinctions appear, but that one umbrella label can conceal decisive differences in authority, text, preservation, and method.
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The Church Must Receive, Confess, and Use the Text God Has Preserved
The doctrine of Scripture cannot end in a library.
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Confessional Bibliology Is Not KJV-Onlyism
Confessional Bibliology values the Authorized Version because of its fidelity to the received Hebrew and Greek texts, but it places every translation beneath those authentic originals.
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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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