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This is the third part of Christopher Yetzer’s treatment of the KJV Translator’s Preface to the Reader. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Thanks again to Christopher for allowing us to repost his work without modification. Blessings. _______________________________________________________________________________ Because the preface is the words of just one translator, it is notContinue reading “The KJV Preface Constrained (Part 3)”

The following is Part 2 of Christopher Yetzer’s treatment of certain terms found in the KJV Translator’s Preface to the Reader and the specifically the role of translations in the Church. If you are looking for Part 1 you can found it here. Yetzer here observes that the KJV translator had several audiences they wereContinue reading “Very Vulgar: The KJV Preface Considered (Part 2)”

Below is a brief history of the theme of “plowboy” or ploughman” in the context of Bible translations their intelligibility. This is part one of a four part series written by Christopher Yetzer on his FB wall [07/26/2022]. Thanks to him for allowing me to repost this here. I found Yetzer insightful on the pointContinue reading “The Plowboy and the Ploughman”

I was able to listen to the Textual Confidence Collective today. The episode had some interesting historical facts but overall it was easily the most low energy episode to this point. The one major critique I had was the TCC’s insistence upon scholarship as our epistemological grounding for the text [i.e., the TCC ignores truthsContinue reading “Lancelot Andrewes Institute”

I have found it interesting over these last couple weeks that the Textual Confidence Collective aims to strengthen their listeners in Biblical confidence. Yet, without exception each episode thus far has keyed off the doubt we all must properly have: 1.) Doubt that the TR is the word of God down to the very wordsContinue reading “An Analysis of the Textual Confidence Collective’s Collective Doubt”

Ok, so Mark Ward takes a lot of heat here at StandardSacredText.com, largely because he deserves it and partly because he is somehow a Ph.D. that is also an easy target. One thing that I have challenged Ward to do is to take a look at the modern versions of the Bible and make anContinue reading “The Necessity and Theology of the “Inclusive Man””

Chas recently wrote in asking the following question: My question for the day – I had asked you regarding the faith of Erasmus – I used him because as I understand it he would not have had a perfectly collated TR in his hand thus it was still in need of maturing. Thus if asContinue reading “How Can You Believe in the TR/KJV Exclusively w/o Besmirching the Belief of Christians in the Past?”

Why I Preach from the Received Text: An Anthology of Essays by Reformed Ministers edited by Jeffrey T. Riddle & Christian M. McShaffrey became available yesterday. Here is a link to the book. Dr. Van Kleeck Sr. wrote of this book, “The ‘house of the Lord’ (Psalm 27:4) has always been the best place toContinue reading “Riddle and McShaffrey: Why I Preach from the Received Text”

Both Dr.’s Van Kleeck had the privilege of studying under Dr. Richard Gaffin Jr. at Westminster Theological Seminary [East]. We still have our notes from that/those classes. Gaffin taught Introduction to Systematic Theology which included his lectures on Bibliology. His lectures formed the way we talk about the Bible now at StandardSacredText.com Gaffin has sinceContinue reading “From My Seminary Notes”

The image below has been circulating around lately in certain familiar circles so I thought I would I would share it here for anyone who had not seen it. It is an image of the current English versions of the Bible approved by the Apostolic See i.e., the Pope. Canon law regarding the authority ofContinue reading “The KJV Didn’t Makes the Pope’s List…Shocker”