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The χαριτόω (Charito'o) Argument
A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, aka BDAG (3rd edition), p. 1081, explains the meaning of χαριτόω thus: One of the techniques of those arguing that Mary was immaculately conceived is to load the word, χαριτόω, with special significance. We will take a broader look at the use of…
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Beza, Plato, and the "Shall Be" Speculative Restoration at Revelation 16:5
Beza speculatively replaced “ὅσιος” with “ἐσόμενος” in Revelation 16:5. Sometimes advocates of the King James Version (or Scrivener’s Textus Receptus, which was based on the KJV), will try to find some hint that this text existed in some now-lost copies of Scripture. To that end, I’ve done my best to survive the roughly 266 places…
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The Tetragrammaton in the Early Church Fathers (with bonus material)
In the patristic period (AD 70, upon the destruction of Jerusalem, to AD 749, the death of John Damascene), three fathers, in five places, provided a Greek transliteration of the tetragrammaton. The term “tetragrammaton,” however appears to have been used even before Christ by Philo, in his “Life of Moses.” Philo seems to indicate that…
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Don't Be Surprised if You Make Some Mistakes
Jerome wrote: And if the ingenuity of perverse men finds something which they may plausibly censure in the writings even of evangelists and prophets, are you amazed if, in your books, especially in your exposition of passages in Scripture which are exceedingly difficult of interpretation, some things be found which are not perfectly correct? –…