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The Apparatus Is Not an Eyewitness
A modern apparatus gives a necessary editorial summary, not a time machine. Alexandrinus must be judged through its material history, dated observers, transmissional possibilities, and ecclesiastical reception.
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Evidence Under Authority: A Confessional Use of Manuscripts
The alternative to extant-manuscript supremacy is not ignorance. It is a disciplined, ministerial use of historical evidence under the authority of the preserved text God has given His church.
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Presuppositional Analysis: Critical History of the Text of the New Testament
Critical History of the Text of the New Testament: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Richard Simon’s Critical History of the Text of the New Testament rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human…
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Book Review: Critical History of the Text of the New Testament
Critical History of the Text of the New Testament Bibliographical Notice Richard Simon, Critical History of the Text of the New Testament, trans., intro., and ann. Andrew Hunwick (Leiden: Brill, 2013). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Richard Simon’s Critical History…
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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 the Old Scheme Is Preferable
Calamy compares Nicene and subordinationist schemes by their scriptural grounds, coherence, effects upon redemption and worship, and capacity to give rest to the soul.
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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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Source and Claim Audit
Source and Claim Audit Controlling confessional claim The series uses the original wording and grammatical sequence of Westminster Confession of Faith 1.8: the Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament were immediately inspired;those Scriptures were kept pure in all ages by singular…
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Presuppositional Analysis: The Inspiration of Scripture
The Inspiration of Scripture: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Robert D. Preus’s The Inspiration of Scripture rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Preus investigates seventeenth-century Lutheran dogmaticians on Scripture, seeking…
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Book Review: The Inspiration of Scripture
The Inspiration of Scripture Bibliographical Notice Robert D. Preus, The Inspiration of Scripture (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1957; supplied edition). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Robert D. Preus’s The Inspiration of Scripture must be judged according to its actual…
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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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Reverence, Economy, and Superstition
Sacred contractions undeniably save space, but economy does not explain why Christians selected God, Lord, Jesus, and Christ. The evidence points first to reverence—and warns how reverence can become superstition.
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