Confessional Bibliology https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Matthew 3:7 — “His Baptism”: Does the Pronoun Belong in John’s Rebuke? Matthew 2:18 — “Lamentation, Weeping, and Great Mourning”: The Full Text of Rachel’s Cry Matthew 2:5 — Did a Copyist Add Micah—or Even Isaiah—to the Prophetic Citation? Matthew 1:25 — “Her Firstborn Son” or Simply “a Son”? Matthew 1:22 — Did a Copyist Name Isaiah in Matthew’s Prophetic Formula? Matthew 1:18 — “The Birth of Jesus Christ” or “The Genesis of Jesus Christ”? Matthew 1:16 — “Joseph the Husband of Mary”: The Text and the Virgin Birth Matthew 1:11 — Was Jehoiakim Omitted from Matthew’s Genealogy? Matthew 1:10 — Amon or Amos? A Second Genealogical Name under Review Matthew 1:7–8 — Asa or Asaph? The Name in Christ’s Royal Genealogy Current and Upcoming Posts Argument Analysis Checklist Argument Analysis Introduction Library One God, the Father: Introducing Edmund Calamy’s Trinitarian Sermons Difficult Variants Must Be Resolved Within the Received Text Evidence Is Not the Instrument: Manuscripts, Editions, and the Rule of Faith Why Confessional Bibliology Confesses Infallibility, Not Inerrancy The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of a Higher Court Building the Westminster Proof-Text Dataset The Text-Stewardship Safeguard: A Scan Is Not a Verified Text The Traditional Text Must Be Evaluated as a Providential Whole Correcting the Scrivener: Mistake, Reformation, and the Testator’s Actual Intention The Inerrant Autograph: B. B. Warfield and the Making of Modern Inerrancy The Received Greek and Hebrew Controls: Editions, History, and Fair Comparison No Neutrality—Not Even in Textual Criticism The Provenance Safeguard: Name the Source Actually Consulted The Standard James White Said Did Not Exist When Textual Criticism Becomes Magisterial When the Original Cannot Be Produced: Lost Wills, Copies, and Proof of the Text The Word That Cannot Fail: The Biblical and Reformed Doctrine of Infallibility Why the ESV Is Not Simply the Critical Text in English Bahnsen Against Bahnsen: The Question the Apologist Left Unfinished The Pastoral-Purpose Safeguard: Defend, Protect, Correct, and Recover Textual Criticism Is Legitimate Only as a Ministerial Discipline Which Will Governs? Competing Wills, Codicils, Drafts, and Electronic Documents Infallibility Is Not the Weaker Word: Two Terms and Two Doctrinal Histories The ESV 2025: Its Stated Hebrew and Greek Bases The Response Safeguard: Give a Fair Opportunity to Answer A Distinction Must Be Maintained among the Text, Its Witnesses, and Its Editions Authorized Succession Is Not Textual Corruption Stop Playing the Game: A Confessional Manifesto Diplomatic and Eclectic Editions: Why the Old and New Testament Projects Are Not Identical The Correction Safeguard: Correct Errors Conspicuously The Received Text Must Not Be Simplistically Equated with One Immaculate Printed Edition The Death of the Testator and the Blood of the Covenant Scholarship Under the Word: The Ministerial Alternative Reasoning with Unbelievers and Heretics under Scripture’s Final Court BHQ: An Incomplete Successor and the Limits of Calling It ‘the Hebrew Critical Text’ Home