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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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Why Scribes Omit as Well as Add
Eye-skip, abbreviation, memory, deliberate pruning, and measured scribal habits show why the shorter reading may be secondary. The proper comparison is causal, not merely numerical.
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When Textual Science Becomes Magisterial
Textual science becomes magisterial not when scholars study manuscripts, but when their revisable judgments regulate the identity and extent of the authority by which those judgments must be tried.
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Lane Keister: Preservation Affirmed, but What Has Been Preserved?
Lane Keister explicitly affirms preservation, but the question is whether the doctrine he affirms is the same doctrine confessed in Westminster 1.8.
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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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Providence Smuggled into the Apparatus
God's universal providence governs the survival of every manuscript. It does not reveal that a particular manuscript was preserved to correct the church's Bible. Treating survival as such a revelation confuses providence with a hidden canon.
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Before Newton Called It a Corruption: Priscillian, Victor, Fulgentius, and the Long Latin Witness to 1 John 5:7
The long Latin history of 1 John 5:7 includes an unambiguous fourth-century citation, an African confession under Vandal persecution, and Fulgentius’s anti-Arian appeal. These witnesses do not make Latin equivalent to Greek or settle every textual question; they do make the slogan…
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Docetism: Flesh Only in Appearance
Docetism protects a heavenly Savior from real flesh, blood, suffering, and death. Scripture answers that the Word truly became man and redeemed us in the same nature that had fallen.
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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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Book or Tree? Revelation 22:19 and the Myth of Doctrinal Neutrality
The last warning in Scripture is also the site of a textual dispute. The received text of Revelation 22:19 warns that if a man takes away from the words of the prophecy, God will take away his part “out of the book…
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Is the Shorter Reading Better?
Lectio brevior is plausible because texts can grow through glosses, titles, parallels, and liturgy. Yet length becomes evidence only after a real mechanism of expansion has been shown.
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