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Which Will Governs? Competing Wills, Codicils, Drafts, and Electronic Documents
Probate law does not treat every testamentary-looking document as one more valid form of the will. It asks about capacity, execution, intent, revocation, and the governing instrument.
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Textual Criticism Is Legitimate Only as a Ministerial Discipline
Textual criticism is legitimate when it serves the preserved text under Scripture’s authority; it becomes illegitimate when scholarship is made the court that gives the text its identity.
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Matthew 21:29–44 — Which Son Repented, and Does the Stone Saying Belong?
Few short parables have a more tangled manuscript record. In the received form, the first son refuses and then repents; the second promises and does nothing; the hearers correctly choose the first.
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Matthew 22:30, 37 — Angels in Heaven and Loving God: Two Westminster Proof-Text Variants
Two small omissions touch statements used in doctrinal proof. The Textus Receptus says the risen are like the angels of God in heaven.
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Bahnsen Against Bahnsen: The Question the Apologist Left Unfinished
Greg Bahnsen defended the self-attesting Word, rejected neutrality, and demanded Christian certainty. His doctrine of the extant biblical text did not consistently carry those principles through preservation, textual identity, and final authority.
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The Word That Cannot Fail: The Biblical and Reformed Doctrine of Infallibility
The historic Reformed doctrine begins with the God who cannot lie, proceeds to the God-breathed words that cannot be broken, and confesses that those words have been preserved in the authentic Hebrew and Greek Scriptures for the church’s present use.
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When the Original Cannot Be Produced: Lost Wills, Copies, and Proof of the Text
The disappearance of an autograph does not entail the loss of its words. Probate law distinguishes a missing instrument from proof of its precise terms; Scripture distinguishes perishable artifacts from the enduring text.
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When Textual Criticism Becomes Magisterial
Textual criticism becomes magisterial when an indefinitely continuing scholarly reconstruction is made the court that gives Scripture its identity.
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Matthew 24:36, 42 — “Neither the Son” and “What Hour”: The Text of Christ’s Watchfulness Warning
Two time words are disputed in Christ’s watchfulness discourse. At verse 36, the critical text adds “neither the Son” after the angels; the Textus Receptus does not.
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No Neutrality—Not Even in Textual Criticism
Collation can be technical, but no scholar interprets manuscript age, genealogy, scribal habits, or internal probability apart from controlling beliefs about God, history, authority, and preservation.
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Matthew 25:13, 31, 44 — The Son of Man’s Coming and the Final Judgment: Three Disputed Clauses
Three small clauses in Matthew 25 name Christ and his court. The Textus Receptus says the Son of man comes in verse 13, calls the angels holy in verse 31, and says the condemned answer him in verse 44.
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The Received Greek and Hebrew Controls: Editions, History, and Fair Comparison
A fair reconstruction test requires identified received-text controls, not an undefined ‘TR’ or the KJV treated as inspired Greek and Hebrew. This article fixes the editions, historical checks, and comparison rules.
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