Author Archives: Peter Van Kleeck Jr. Ph.D.

Turretin writes, “All admit that the Hebrew of the Old and the Greek of the New Testament are the original and primitive. But we and the papists dispute whether each is authentic, of itself deserving faith and authority and the standard to which all the versions are to be applied.” Francis Turretin, Institutes of ElencticContinue reading “Are the Hebrew version of the Old Testament and the Greek version of the New Testament the only authentic versions? We affirm against the papists.”

We come now to one of the more “sensational” statements in Turretin’s Bibliology. It is sensational at least for the current ecclesiastical climate because of where he claims the purity of the Bible resides. Turretin’s argument here is very different than the standard argument for the originals. Take for instance the Chicago Statement on InerrancyContinue reading “Have the original texts of the Old and New Testaments come down to us pure and uncorrupted? We affirm against the papists.”

As part of our Bibliology Primer we now turn to Francis Turretin’s seventh question in which he asks, “Has any canonical book perished? We deny.” He goes on explain that the Scriptures can be spoken of as canonical in two respects: “either for the doctrine divinely reveled or for the sacred books in which itContinue reading “Have any canonical book perished? We deny.”