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The first reason to love the TBS TR is because it is blue and not red. Probably no one else on campus will have a blue Greek text which opens countless opportunities to begin a didactic, polemic, or apologetic dialogue. Most seminarians don’t know that there is an alternative to the UBS Greek text, soContinue reading “A Seminarian’s Reason for Loving the Trinitarian Bible Society’s Received Text”

After reading Dean John William Burgon’s unanswered defense of the long ending of Mark and reflecting to the genius of his argument, several of his observations lingered with me this morning that apply to the transmission of all MSS to a greater or lesser degree. First, because the process is unquantifiable not knowing what theContinue reading “The Irrelevance of Counting Manuscripts (MSS)”

        The following is a brief excerpt of Dean Burgon’s 400 page defense of the authenticity of the long ending of the Gospel of Mark. This section is near the end of his erudite apologetic.  It being freely admitted that, in the beginning of the 4th century, there must have existed Copies of the Gospels inContinue reading “The Unanswered Dean John William Burgon (1813-1888) on the Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel of Mark”

attributed to John Clifford Last eve I passed beside a blacksmith’s door, And heard the anvil ring, the vesper chime. And looking in, I saw upon the floor, Old hammers, worn by beating years of time. “How many anvils have you had?” said I, “To wear and batter out hose hammers so?” “Just one,” saidContinue reading “The Anvil of God’s Word”

If the 4th century neutral text of Westcott and Hort or the 4th century initial text of Wasserman and Gurry have an unquantifiable link to the autographs, the 16th century Received Text may also be reasonably considered to possesses an unquantifiable link to the autographa through the apographa. Unquantifiable cannot be quantified by historical duration,Continue reading “Are they really sawing the lady in half?”

The Hebrew translation of “them” in 7a, is interpreted as people following Rabbi Kimshi in the Great, Geneva, and Bishops’ Bibles, not based on a change in the Hebrew grammar or diction but because of the choice of antecedent. For these three versions, the single reading assigned to the pronoun “them” refers to the largerContinue reading “The King James Bible, 1611, and Psalm 12:6-7”

Just before being shipwrecked, the Apostle Paul gives this testimony of his faith in the promises of God. “Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe in God, that it shall be even as it was told me.” Acts 27:25

This is the third and last installment of the “The unquantifiability of the historic canonical collating process” series. This post argues for the traditional Protestant orthodox understanding of Matthew 5:18 based on Isaiah 59:21 and scientific support for the traditional orthodox rendering. OPTION 2: Supposition: The last received iteration of Matt. 5:18 is accepted asContinue reading “The unquantifiability of the historic canonical collating process, part 3”

In part one of this series, we argued that the historical critical method’s failure after 150 years of scientific discovery to identify the canon is sufficient grounds to say that the historic collation of canonical words is unquantifiable which agrees with Protestant orthodoxy, but of course for obviously different reasons. Consider this agreement the comingContinue reading “The unquantifiability of the historic canonical collating process, part 2”

Why are variations within the manuscript tradition raised as a prima facia defeater to Matt. 5:18? Acknowledging that no two manuscripts are identical is enough for almost everyone to say, “Turn off the lights on your way out.” How then, does the historical record confirm the truth of Matt. 5:18 for the Canon of Scripture?