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The Method on Trial: Arbitrariness, Inconsistency, Consequences, and Preconditions
An apologetic may succeed against one opponent and fail as an account of its own authority. Wesley Huff can show a skeptic that the New Testament is vastly better attested than many ancient works. He can expose false claims about manuscripts, explain…
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Five Doctrinal-Effect Classes
D0 through D4 distinguish neutrality, lost testimony, accommodation, formal entailment, and orthodox counterevidence. The classes measure a reading’s demonstrated effect without turning a local finding into a corpus verdict.
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Palaeography: A Real Tool with Real Limits
Handwriting comparison can place an undated manuscript within a useful historical range. It cannot make every letter form a clock or turn stylistic resemblance into a dated colophon.
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How the Church Must Answer Heresy: Admonition, Judgment, Censure, and Restoration
The final article explains how false doctrine should be handled in the church: by admonition, lawful judgment, discipline, and, where God grants it, restoration.
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The Martin Rule of Exact Doctrinal Entailment
A reading must be judged by what its words necessarily assert, what they remove, and what must be imported from elsewhere. The Martin Rule prevents both doctrinal minimization and exaggerated accusations of heresy.
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“Attested By” Is Not “Composed In”
The earliest surviving witness tells us that wording existed by a certain point. It does not, by itself, tell us when that wording originated—or authorize an arbitrary century-long guess.
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Scrivener’s Apparatus: A Citation Is Not a Manuscript
Scrivener’s collations and apparatuses are indispensable historical evidence, but an apparatus is a scholarly report about witnesses. It must be checked against the manuscripts, editions, and scope of the claim it is asked to support.
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Four Dates Every Manuscript Claim Must Separate
A manuscript’s manufacture, the age of its wording, its scholarly date assignment, and its documented provenance are four different chronological claims. Honest textual history must name which one it is making.
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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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Preservation as the Test Case
Biblical preservation concerns the words God gave and kept for the continuing faith and final appeal of the church. A surviving pool of evidence is not yet the confessional doctrine.
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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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