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Jan Krans on Beza's Emendation of Revelation 16:5
Dr. Jan Krans, who has provided the definitive treatment of conjectural emendation by Erasmus and Beza, provided an article on conjectural emendation as it relates to Revelation in the Editio Critica Maior of Revelation (VI/3.1, pp. 419-20). In this article, Dr. Krans addresses Beza and Revelation 16:5. The following is my own English translation of…
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The Plow Boy (or Ploughboy) and Translation
Dr. Dan Haifly, in his recent debate with Dr. Mark Ward, made the following comment (see here): Mark and and several of his friends and fellow fellow students have said — I say students of the Bible — they talk about the plow boy. The guy that edited the ESV he said, “I think there’s…
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Beza's Ancient Codices at Luke 17:36
In a recent video, Dwayne Green commented on Theodore Beza’s Annotations on Luke 17:36. His comments should be visible in the right column of this screenshot: (source video) Beza says that the verse is found in the Complutensian edition and in four old/aged/ancient (vetustis) codices. Dwayne asked folks if they could identify the codices in…
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Significance of Source Critical / Textual Critical Comments on 2 Maccabees 12:43-45
Introduction This post is to provide some written responses to a few interesting issues that have arisen in the wake of a recent Purgatory debate (and preparation for that debate). As the post has evolved a bit since its initial posting, I’m going to try to clean it up and make it more user-friendly, as…
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Textual Variant in Cyprian
Someone asked about the textual variant issue in Cyprian that I alluded to during my recent episode on Cyprian and Purgatory (link to video). Here’s the relevant material from a critical edition of Cyprian’s letters. First the main text: As you can see, the editors have used “purged for a long time with fire” (purgari…
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Megan Basham and the Gallup Poll
At page 5 of Shepherds for Sale, Megan Basham makes the following claim: It needed to expand beyond the borders of its liberal mainline, Catholic, and Jewish coalition and look toward the roughly 45 percent of voters who then identified as evangelical. [FN15] Thus, in 1993, the Evangelical Environmental Network was born. Basham cites “Gallup,…
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Megan Basham regarding SEBTS Hosting Cornwall Alliance Speaker, E. Calvin Beisner
Megan Basham’s “Shepherds for Sale” provides a mixture of good stuff (like identifying the funding for various organizations that have “Evangelical” in the title) and errors (both minor and serious). Basham claims: “In fact, I could not find that SEBTS has ever hosted a speaker who has challenged climate change catastrophizing, though the school regularly…
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Megan Basham and the 2022 NAE Report
Chapter 1 of Basham’s book is “Climate Change.” After an anecdote about a CRC pastor talking about climate change at Christmastime, Basham offers the cases of Sri Lanka, Holland, and Ghana (pp. 2-3) Then, she makes her first concrete claim (p. 3): Meanwhile, in the United States, the National Association of Evangelicals released a 2022…
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Megan Basham and King James
A quick caveat for those readers who are wont to see everything even seemingly critical of Basham as an attack on “our side” (note the absolutely mindless blowback that Richard Barcellos got): that’s not what this post is. Megan Basham’s book, “Shepherds for Sale,” has elsewhere been answered as to Gavin Ortlund (first video, follow-up…
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The Intent of the Cross
For whom was Christ’s work on the cross intended? “His People” Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Luke 1:68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, Luke 1:77…