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Cyprian’s Three: What the Third-Century Bishop Does—and Does Not—Witness to in 1 John 5:7
Cyprian’s appeal to ‘the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost’ followed by ‘these three are one’ is neither a complete third-century transcription of the Comma nor a datum that may be waved away. It is early, specific, and…
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The Fathers Who Said Θεός: Chrysostom, Theodoret, and the Witness the Apparatus Cannot Count
Chrysostom and Theodoret do more than affirm the deity of Christ. Both cite 1 Timothy 3:16 as “God was manifest in the flesh” and expound the clause as apostolic Scripture. Their evidence must be weighed carefully, but it cannot be erased by…
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The God Gregory of Nyssa Read: 1 Timothy 3:16 and the Greek Church Before the Critical Text
Gregory of Nyssa did not merely teach Christ’s deity in general terms. In his controversy with Eunomius, he introduced 1 Timothy 3:16 as Paul’s plain declaration that “God was manifest in the flesh.” His testimony does not eliminate every textual question, but…
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Two Endings, One Received Gospel: Eusebius, Jerome, and Burgon’s Ledger of Mark 16
Eusebius and Jerome cannot be suppressed in a defense of Mark 16:9–20; they report copies which lacked the ending. But neither Father simply declares the passage spurious, and Jerome’s parallel cannot be counted as an independent manuscript census. This article weighs their…
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Mark 9:23 — “If Thou Canst Believe” or “If Thou Canst”? Who Is Being Challenged?
Jesus either challenges the father’s ability to believe or takes up the father’s own words, “If thou canst.” Both lead to the declaration that all things are possible to the believer.
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Mark 8:35 — “For My Sake and the Gospel’s”: Is the Gospel Clause Authentic?
The received and principal critical texts include both loyalties: Christ and the gospel. A limited variant omits the gospel clause, often under influence from the shorter Synoptic parallels.
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Mark 6:22 — Herodias’s Daughter or Herod’s Daughter Herodias?
The received reading identifies the dancer as Herodias’s own daughter. A difficult critical form can be read as Herod’s daughter named Herodias, conflicting with the narrative’s next identification.
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Mark 8:26 — “Neither Go into the Town, nor Tell It to Any in the Town”
After healing the blind man, the received text gives two prohibitions: do not enter the village and do not report the healing there. The critical text keeps only the first command in a compressed form.
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Mark 6:20 — Did Herod “Do Many Things” or Remain “Greatly Perplexed”?
Herod either acted on many of John’s words or was greatly perplexed by them. The difference between the two Greek verbs creates distinct portraits, though both end with his willing attention.
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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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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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