Thursday, January 09, 2025

Seven Sages and Revelation 16:5

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The Precepts of the Seven Sages (or " Sentences of the Seven Sages " or " Injunctions of the Seven Sages ") is a collect...
Tuesday, January 07, 2025

Eternal Fire and Sodom

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John Gill in commenting on Jude 7, and the punishment of "πυρὸς αἰωνίου" (eternal fire) that came upon Sodom, mentioned Philo.  Ph...

The Wrong Standard of Error - Continued

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Listening to Steve Schwenke, I came across an argument that echoed Jack McElroy's claim ( rebutted here ) that the King James translator...
Sunday, January 05, 2025

Preparing for the Revelation 16:5 Debate - Responses to Howe, Jones, Daniels, and McElroy

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In preparing for a planned debate on Revelation 16:5, I checked out the following KJV advocacy books: "The KJV is for Me: Why I use the...
Thursday, January 02, 2025

The Woman of Revelation 12 cannot possibly be Mary

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 People sometimes notice that the woman of Revelation 12 has a child who will rule the nation with a rod of iron, and from that they assume ...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Jonathan Edwards (mis-?)quoting Revelation 16:5

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One of my favorite Christian philosophers is Jonathan Edwards. In this instance, however, Edwards seems to have made a slight error that is ...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Christianus Fridericus Matthaei on Revelation 16:5

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From 1782 to 1788, Christianus Fridericus Matthaei (1744-1811) published a critical text based (I'm told) on a collation of about 70 rel...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Psalm 37:8 - Background to the King James text

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A word of caution about this post.  This is essentially a work in progress post that provides some thoughts I had about the background to th...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

The Majesty Argument for the King James Version

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Dr. Donald L. Brake, Sr. wrote "A Monarch's Majestic Translation: The Kings James Bible: The Remarkable Relevance of a Seventeenth-...