Friday, January 17, 2025

Codex Vaticanus Says What?!

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Matt 27:49b contains an unusual textual variant that is found in manuscripts 01, 03, 04, 019, 67, 1780, 2586, 2680, 2766.  In at least two o...
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 ...