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The Private Greek New Testament, 1853–1870
Westcott and Hort did not enter the Revision Company as neutral observers waiting for its evidence to form their views. They brought a Greek New Testament already seventeen years in preparation, grounded in a settled rejection of the received text and a…
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How to Recognize Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism in Practice
Ten diagnostic questions reveal whether textual criticism recognizes a preserved text as a servant or reconstructs an absent text as a judge.
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The Word’s Testimony Concerning Itself
Scripture’s divine authority, self-attestation, and promise of preservation must govern the evidence rather than await permission from a neutral tribunal.
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“Through the Manuscripts”: Does an Aggregate of Competing Readings Constitute a Preserved Text?
An aggregate of mutually exclusive readings is evidence about a text, not itself the preserved and authentic text confessed by the church.
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What Is Confessional Bibliology? A Definition of Its Doctrine, Method, Text, and Commitments
Confessional Bibliology begins with God’s own testimony and confesses the inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as preserved, authentic, and publicly received.
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A Text Circulated Under Confidence
Westcott and Hort’s Greek text was not hidden from the Revisers; it was placed in their hands through a restricted private issue. The decisive imbalance was different: the Company used a mature rival text years before the public received the full theory…
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Private Judgment Without Autonomous Judgment
Private judgment is unavoidable and personal, yet it remains ministerial, corrigible, ecclesial, and bound to the self-attesting Word.
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How the Academy Game Became Normal
Modern reconstructionist assumptions became normal through a historical sequence of concessions, institutions, textbooks, and professional formation.
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Can the Received Text and Critical Text Both Be “Pure”?
Translations can faithfully communicate Scripture, but contradictory Hebrew or Greek readings cannot both be the one authentic wording at the same place.
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Why Confessional Bibliology Must Be Stated Before It Is Defended
A positive doctrine of Scripture must be stated before individual variants are disputed, because method follows first principles.
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The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of Neutrality: Why God’s Revelation Cannot Be Authenticated by a Higher Human Court
Scripture bears God’s own authority and cannot be authenticated by a higher neutral court; evidence and reason serve beneath its self-attesting testimony.
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Hort’s Ascendancy and Scrivener’s Resistance
The Revision Company never formally adopted Westcott and Hort’s edition, yet a fellow Reviser testified that Hort persuaded the Company of the general soundness of his theory. Scrivener’s resistance remained real, but it increasingly operated against an ascendant critical framework.
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