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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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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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Westminster's "Kept Pure in All Ages": Recovering the Assembly's Historical Claim
Westminster 1.8 confesses a providentially preserved, presently authentic Hebrew and Greek rule without identifying every witness or one flawless printing.
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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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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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A Fallible Servant or a Final Court? The Place of Textual Criticism
Textual criticism need not claim infallibility to become functionally supreme. Its proper place is determined by whether it recognizes a preserved Word or conditions which words may presently exercise final authority.
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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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One Book at a Time: Dates, Translators, and Profiles
The Greek biblical books do not share one translator, date, or method. Before a Greek difference can be treated as evidence for another Hebrew text, the translation profile of that particular book must be established.
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John Owen's "Divine Original": Authority Joined to Integrity and Purity
Owen's paired 1659 treatises join Scripture's divine authority to the integrity and purity of the extant Hebrew and Greek text without making copyists inspired.
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Ask for the Old Paths: Scripture, Antiquity, and the Nicene Faith
Calamy tests claims of doctrinal novelty by Scripture first and early Christian testimony second, arguing that Nicene Trinitarianism follows the old path while refusing to make the fathers infallible.
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