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The Traditional Text Must Be Evaluated as a Providential Whole
Modern textual criticism habitually presents each textual variant as an independent contest.
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Past Writers Must Be Allowed to Speak: Historical Meaning in Doctrinal Debate
The Safeguard 19 method-and-case series for establishing what older writers and confessions meant before comparing, developing, or judging their claims.
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The Stream Cannot Correct the Fountain
A Greek translation may preserve ancient evidence and serve the Church as a valuable witness. It cannot become the judge of the inspired Hebrew text from which its authority is derived.
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The Text in Question: Calamy''s First Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Edmund Calamy frames the inquiry into 1 John 5:7, distinguishes the doctrine of the Trinity from the status of one clause, and states his initial concessions.
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“He That Answereth a Matter Before He Heareth It”: Rash Speech and Knowing Equivocation Among Elders
The Ninth Commandment requires elders to hear a textual position from its primary sources, represent it truthfully, and refuse the equivocation that preserves confessional words while replacing their meaning.
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Manuscripts, Versions, and the Fathers: Calamy''s Second Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Calamy answers the case from Greek manuscripts, ancient versions, and patristic silence, then weighs the Latin and African witnesses available to him.
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William Whitaker’s Rule for Every Translation
Whitaker’s answer to Vulgate supremacy is a universal rule: every version is received when it agrees with the inspired originals and corrected when it does not. He expressly applies that principle to the Greek translation of the Seventy.
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“Undue Silence in a Just Cause”: When “Intramural” Becomes an Excuse
Calling the textual controversy intramural does not make it nonfoundational, and church polity does not excuse elders from publicly answering public error about the identity and preservation of Scripture.
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Objections to Confessional Bibliology - 1
Confessional Bibliology and the Reformation Text: Exploring the Question of Older Manuscripts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction When you pick up a modern Bible in English—whether it’s the King James Version KJV , the New…
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Objections to Confessional Bibliology - 2
Manuscript Variations in the Ecclesiastical Text: How Do We Know Which Readings Are Correct? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Introduction When we talk about Bible manuscripts—hand-copied versions of biblical books—we often hear about…
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The Church as Witness and Keeper, Not Creator or Master: How Christ’s Church Receives, Recognizes, Preserves, and Proclaims His Word
Christ’s church receives, recognizes, preserves, and proclaims the Word as its appointed witness and keeper, never as the source or master of Scripture’s authority.
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Doctrine of Inspiration Part 8
Article 8: The Old Testament—Law, Prophets, Writings, and Inspiration The Old Testament stands as a large, complex tapestry of narratives, poetry, legal codes, genealogies, prophecies, and wisdom literature—written by numerous authors across a span of roughly a millennium. Yet…
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