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The Mark Irenaeus Knew: Mark 16:9–20 and the Second-Century Church
Irenaeus does not merely allude to Christ’s ascension. He expressly says that Mark, near the conclusion of his Gospel, wrote Mark 16:19. This second-century witness does not answer every question about the ending of Mark, but it makes a theory of late…
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“Take Heed Unto Thyself, and Unto the Doctrine”: Public Error, Public Repentance, and the Judgment of Christ
Church officers will answer to Christ for what they teach, what they refuse to correct, and what they knowingly leave undefended; public error therefore requires proportionate public repentance.
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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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Begotten, Not Made
Arius could call Christ begotten while treating that begetting as creaturely production. Nicaea’s ‘not made’ guarded the scriptural boundary between the natural Son and every work made through him.
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Mark 8:15 — The Leaven of Herod or the Leaven of the Herodians?
The main received and critical texts warn against the leaven of Herod. Some witnesses substitute “the Herodians,” probably recalling the political group named elsewhere in Mark.
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Mark 6:11 — “More Tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha”: The Omitted Judgment Saying
The received mission charge ends with a comparison to Sodom and Gomorrah at judgment. The critical text omits the entire sentence, leaving the dust-shaking sign without Christ’s explicit interpretation.
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"No Major Doctrine Is Affected": The Claim Before the Martin Rule
The most reassuring sentence in popular textual apologetics is also among the least examined. After acknowledging hundreds of differences between the Authorized Version and modern translations, Wesley Huff says that the changes affect “no major doctrine.” He names the deity of Christ,…
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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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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 1: What Is Being Charged?
The charge is not that every user of a critical edition is personally an atheist. It is that a theory which makes a revisable scholarly reconstruction the final court of textual authority adopts an atheistic epistemology at that point.
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What Is a Textual Canon? From Maxim to Verdict
A textual canon is a bridge from an observed feature to a judgment of priority. This article classifies the main canons and shows why the hidden premises in that bridge matter more than the slogan.
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Of the Holy Scripture III: Self-Attestation, Sufficiency, and Clarity
Westminster Confession 1.5–1.7 teaches that Scripture manifests itself as God's Word, contains the whole counsel necessary for faith and life, and is clear in all things necessary to salvation. This article tests those claims without reducing self-attestation to private feeling or sufficiency…
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Mark 7:24 — The Borders of Tyre and Sidon: Does “Sidon” Belong?
The received destination names both Tyre and Sidon. The critical text names only Tyre, although verse 31 later describes Jesus traveling through Sidon on the return toward Galilee.
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