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The Comma Wager: What the Evidence Proves—and What It Does Not
The familiar story that Erasmus made a wager about the Comma Johanneum is commonly repeated as settled history. The actual question is narrower: what did Erasmus say, what did the manuscript evidence establish, and what does neither prove?
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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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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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The Presuppositional Exception
Modern defenders of the critical text confess Scripture as their ultimate authority everywhere except at the point where the words of Scripture are identified. That exception exposes the method's deepest inconsistency.
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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 I: The Westminster Question, the Critical Corpus, and the Catechism Map
The Westminster reconstruction test begins where Westminster begins: with Holy Scripture. This article fixes the historical target, names the critical corpus, maps the related Larger Catechism questions, and distinguishes the survival of a doctrine from its full derivation.
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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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Preserved or Merely Recoverable?
Part Seventeen distinguished the infallible canonical text from the fallible artifacts that witness to it. God did not immediately inspire every scribe, printer, editor, or translator. Yet the fallibility of particular witnesses does not imply that the inspired text disappeared with the…
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“Tweaking,” “Plus,” and “Minus”: The Rhetoric by Which Critical Revision Becomes Neutral
Shows how apparently neutral terms such as plus, minus, and tweaking can conceal the editorial and ecclesiastical consequences of textual decisions.
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Preservation Entails the Public Availability of the Authentic Text
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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NA29 and Edition Drift: What Changes When the Standard Changes?
NA29 will not merely reprint NA28. This article defines edition drift, identifies the changes already published in UBS6, and establishes the controls required whenever a theological claim appeals to ‘the critical text.’
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