Journal of Confessional Bibliology — Scripture Alone, Preserved by Providence

John Wycliffe

Setting: Late-medieval Western church; a pre-Reformation witness who must not be described as though he had subscribed a later Reformed confession. John Wycliffe was an Oxford-trained English theologian whose disputes over ecclesiastical property, papal power,...

Huldrych Zwingli

Setting: Early Swiss Reformation at Zürich. Huldrych Zwingli was the leading early reformer of Zürich. Trained in humanism and Greek, he began continuous exposition of Matthew in 1519 and pressed civic and ecclesiastical reform through public disputations grounded in...

God Manifest in the Flesh: 1 Timothy 3:16

This dossier coordinates the complete 1 Timothy 3:16 variation unit in VAR-0002. It distinguishes the textual decision reported by Metzger from CBGM, which has no passage-level result for the Pastoral Epistles; it states the exact doctrinal effect of replacing θεός...

1 Timothy 3:16: God Manifest in the Flesh

Controlling question: Did Paul write θεός (“God”), ὃς (“who”), or ὅ (“which”) before ἐφανερώθη ἐν σαρκί? “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles,...