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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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The Label Is Not an Argument
Calling Confessional Bibliology “KJV-only,” “TR-only,” or “Ruckmanite” does not answer its doctrine of preservation. When a loaded label is made to carry the argument, it becomes an act of intellectual cowardice and, among Christians, a sin against truth.
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Preserved Through the Manuscripts: James White, Lane Keister, and Generic Preservation
James White and Lane Keister explicitly affirm preservation through manuscripts. The question is whether that affirmation yields an identifiable, publicly possessed, authentic text—or only surviving materials for reconstruction.
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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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Has the Bible Been Kept Pure?
Alternate title: The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Providential Preservation of Scripture
Independently published, 2017.
Milne argues from primary Reformation and post-Reformation sources that Westminster Confession 1.8 teaches providential preservation of the complete wording of Scripture in accessible Hebrew and Greek copies, not merely preservation of doctrine or a recoverable text hidden across the manuscript tradition. Extended…
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A Plea for the Received Greek Text and for the Authorised Version of the New Testament
Alternate title: In Answer to Some of the Dean of Canterbury's Criticisms on Both
London: Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, W., 1869.
Malan replies to Henry Alford's critical Greek text and English revisions through detailed discussion of selected readings and renderings in Matthew 1–4 and Titus. He uses Greek grammar, classical parallels, patristic testimony, and ancient versions to defend the Received Text and the…
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The Ecclesiastical Text
Alternate title: Text Criticism, Biblical Authority and the Popular Mind
Philadelphia: Institute for Renaissance and Reformation Biblical Studies, 1997.
This collection of Letis's essays argues for a 'post-critical' recovery of the New Testament as an ecclesiastically received text. Letis contrasts the Protestant dogmaticians' appeal to the authentic Hebrew and Greek copies with Warfield's doctrine of inerrant but lost autographs, traces the…
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In Defense of the Authenticity of 1 John 5:7
Bloomington: WestBow Press, 2016; copyright 2015; revised August 3, 2016.
Pappas offers a sustained popular-level defense of the Comma Johanneum, combining the grammar of 1 John 5, Latin and Greek transmission, patristic and conciliar references, the history of Erasmus's editions, and theological arguments from providential preservation. The volume gathers many older pro-Comma…
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A History of the Debate over 1 John 5:7-8
Alternate title: A Tracing of the Longevity of the Comma Johanneum, with Evaluations of Arguments Against Its Authenticity
Tempe, Arizona: Comma Publications, 1995.
Maynard assembles a chronological and bibliographical history of the Comma Johanneum from early patristic and versional evidence through the medieval Latin tradition, Erasmus and the printed Greek text, Reformation controversy, and modern criticism. He defends the authenticity of the traditional wording of…
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