Thursday, March 30, 2006

The English Standard Version in historical perspective

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In order to understand the origins of the ESV we must go back to the Revised Version of 1881. The claims that were made for the RV, especia...
Friday, March 17, 2006

Rutherford and the Gospel Offer

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Excerpts from Trial and Triumph of Faith Now, the special intent of the gospel is to bring men to put a high and rich price upon Christ, and...
Friday, February 10, 2006

The communication fallacy in modern Bible translation

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Dynamic equivalence Eugene Nida a Bible translator devised the theory of dynamic equivalence in the early 1960s. Since then he and his theor...

street English or biblical English?

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The main mantra of modern Bible production has been the "need to communicate" the Scriptures in a "modern" idiom. Clearl...
Tuesday, February 07, 2006

the cult of the modern in contemporary bible translation

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Evangelicalism is dominated by the cult of the modern. The term 'modern' is not about history or time so much as quality, everything...

Brief defence of Experimental Christianity

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John Robbins' recent diatribe against the Puritans and experimental Christianity uses an essay by Douglas F. Kelley to launch an attack ...
Monday, January 16, 2006

The Godly Man

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THE GODLY MAN'S PICTURE Drawn with a Scripture Pencil or Some Characteristics of a Man who is Going to Heaven - Thomas Watson (Banner of...
Saturday, November 26, 2005

Overcoming the World

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What is the World? The world and all that is in the world is described as 'the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of ...

Glory of Christ

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In the vision which we shall have above, the whole glory of Christ will be at once and always represented unto us; and we shall be enabled i...

Spiritual Worship

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A spiritual worshipper actually aspires in every duty to know God....To desire worship as an end, is carnal; to desire it as a means, and ac...

Hatred of Sin an Evidence of Love to Christ

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1. His wrongs done to Christ will prick him most. If the wrongs be done by others, they affect him; if by himself, they some way faint him. ...

Meditating often on the Word

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In the plainest text there is a world of holiness and spirituality; and if we in prayer and dependence upon God did sit down and study it, w...

Family Worship

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Families have hereby their communion kept with God, & thus are kept in the suburbs of heaven; hereby they tell him all their wants, and ...

A Fountain Sealed

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In Song of Solomon 4:12 the church is compared to a garden shut up, a fountain sealed, which is to be understood not only in respect of the ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2005

John Bois and the translation of the AV

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The translators of the Authorised Version were certainly the most learned of their age (perhaps of any age) in the Biblical languages . John...