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Erasmus and Codex Vaticanus: The Claim Must Be Tested
The claim that Erasmus ignored or never had access to Codex Vaticanus usually confuses a physical codex, readings reported from it, and Erasmus’s own stated judgment about those readings. Those are not interchangeable things.
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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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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 2: The Lost Autograph Cannot Rule the Church
A Bible located only in vanished autographs cannot function as the church's present rule. The question is not whether God inspired the first inscription, but whether He preserved His words in a form His people can identify and obey.
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R. L. Dabney’s 1871 Indictment of the Critical Canons
Dabney argued that nineteenth-century critics did not merely disagree over facts; they worked with rival codes whose rules could reverse one another and lacked a common umpire.
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Mark 8:35 — “For My Sake and the Gospel’s”: Is the Gospel Clause Authentic?
The received and principal critical texts include both loyalties: Christ and the gospel. A limited variant omits the gospel clause, often under influence from the shorter Synoptic parallels.
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Mark 6:22 — Herodias’s Daughter or Herod’s Daughter Herodias?
The received reading identifies the dancer as Herodias’s own daughter. A difficult critical form can be read as Herod’s daughter named Herodias, conflicting with the narrative’s next identification.
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Corrected, Then Repeated: An Ordained Minister’s Duty to Repent Publicly
Steele was publicly told in 2025 that the men he described did not regard the KJV as inerrant. In 2026 he sharpened the accusation without engaging TBS’s formal original-language standard. The Ninth Commandment now requires a public correction.
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Mark 8:26 — “Neither Go into the Town, nor Tell It to Any in the Town”
After healing the blind man, the received text gives two prohibitions: do not enter the village and do not report the healing there. The critical text keeps only the first command in a compressed form.
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Mark 6:20 — Did Herod “Do Many Things” or Remain “Greatly Perplexed”?
Herod either acted on many of John’s words or was greatly perplexed by them. The difference between the two Greek verbs creates distinct portraits, though both end with his willing attention.
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“No Greek Manuscript”? Steele’s Revelation Ledger Re-examined
Steele’s Revelation examples do not yield one verdict. Some expose real errors; others have Greek attestation he did not report. Revelation 16:5 is especially decisive because “O Lord” and “shall be” are separate variants with different evidence.
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Trying to Destroy the Old Foundation
Variants, printed-edition differences, older manuscripts, and fallible ecclesiastical judgments deserve examination. None by itself disproves an authentic text kept pure in all ages, and none establishes the authority of a reconstructed replacement.
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The Comma Wager: What the Evidence Proves—and What It Does Not
The familiar story that Erasmus made a wager about the Comma Johanneum is commonly repeated as settled history. The actual question is narrower: what did Erasmus say, what did the manuscript evidence establish, and what does neither prove?
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