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Which Text Did the Reformed Confessions Identify as Authentic?
The confessions name no printer, but they do not point to an unknown future reconstruction. They identify the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures actually received, used, translated, and appealed to by the Reformed churches.
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Erasmus and Delitzsch: What Must Be Conceded
Delitzsch’s manuscript evidence must be heard, but rapid production does not prove a reckless race to print, and the final six verses of Revelation cannot be dismissed by the unqualified slogan that Erasmus simply back-translated them from the Vulgate.
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A Canon Given, Not Made
Canonical authority begins in God’s act, not the Church’s vote. Prophets and apostles delivered writings whose authority already existed; the Church’s task is to hear, guard, confess, and obey them.
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What Scrivener Actually Reconstructed
Scrivener worked backward from the Authorized Version to identify the translators’ earlier Greek choices. He did not translate English into Greek or invent those choices in 1881. The distinction between historical reconstruction and textual authority answers Steele’s central use of the phrase…
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The Woman the Churches Remembered: Didascalia, Didymus, Ambrose, Jerome, and the Limits of Patristic Evidence
The early evidence for the woman taken in adultery is neither a single unbroken manuscript chain nor an empty silence. This article weighs what the Didascalia, Didymus, Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine actually establish about the story, its Gospel reception, and its place…
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They Removed It from Their Copies: Augustine, the Woman Taken in Adultery, and the Witnesses That Cannot Be Counted
Augustine’s testimony concerning John 7:53–8:11 does not settle every question of transmission by itself. It does establish that a leading Father received the passage as Scripture, knew of copies without it, and reported a moral motive for its removal—evidence that a surviving-manuscript…
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Kept Pure in All Ages: WCF 1.8 and Its Historical Referent
The preservation clause in WCF 1.8 must be read with its stated consequence: an authentic Hebrew and Greek text to which the church may finally appeal.
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Of the Holy Scripture II: Necessity, Canon, and Authority
Westminster Confession 1.1–1.4 says more than that God once inspired writings. It confesses the necessity of written revelation, a defined canon, the exclusion of the Apocrypha, and an authority that rests on God rather than the church. This article tests the strongest…
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Manuscripts Are Witnesses, Not the Word’s Magisterial Judges
Confessional Bibliology does not reject manuscript evidence. It assigns manuscripts their proper office: real and necessary witnesses that serve the authentic text without constituting its authority.
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Obadiah Sedgwick’s Anatomy of Heresy
Sedgwick provides the clearest classical map for understanding error, fundamental doctrine, direct heresy, and heresy by consequence.
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It Pleased the Lord
Natural revelation closes every mouth, but it does not open the mystery of redemption. Creation declares the power, wisdom, and goodness of its Maker. Providence confronts humanity with dependence upon his sustaining hand. Conscience bears witness to his moral claim. Yet neither…
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The 99 Percent Argument Is Not a Majority-Text Rule
TBS’s appeal to the overwhelming transmission of Mark 16 is a powerful internal criticism of critical-text weighting. It becomes inconsistent only if it is made an absolute counting rule. Steele assumes that universal rule, then uses difficult minority readings to refute a…
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