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The Bible’s “Summum Bonum”

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Sermons argue Christianity endures: Christ’s work is finished (redemption complete) and the Bible teaches the Summum Bonum—do all to the glory of God.

The Epitaph of Abercius

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Jan 31, 1885 issue of The Sunday School Times: editorials on prayer, devotion, suffering and Sunday-school leadership; lesson helps on Paul’s defense (Acts 22) and Warfield on Abercius’ epitaph.

The Massora Among the Syrians

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Study of the Syriac Massora and its manuscript tradition, examining Peshitta and Philoxeno‑Heraclensian analyses, their form, scope, and implications for textual transmission and canon.

The Rayner Papyrus of the Third Century

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Obituaries and tributes honoring Ulysses S. Grant, recalling his military leadership, magnanimity at Appomattox, presidency, and the nation’s mourning at his death.

The So-Called Gospel Papyrus

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1885 Independent selections: an ode to Mary Arden (Shakespeare’s mother), an essay on Balkan treaties (Paris, San Stefano, Berlin), and a piece on the literary preface.

A Sunday Rest for the U.S. Army

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1886 issue with poems. Articles warn of Russia’s designs in post-abdication Bulgaria and debate ‘High License’ liquor laws—balancing revenue, fewer saloons, and moral costs.

An Interpolation in the Didache

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Selections from The Independent (1886): poems and essays on beauty, nature, ancient American myths, Indian schooling policy, and theological reflections on the Atonement.

Another Witness to the Egyptian Type of the Didache

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Two poems celebrate the Bartholdi Statue and the enduring ideal of liberty; appended reports present missionary statistics showing growth of native agents, Christians, and communicants.

Bickell on the Papyrus Fragment

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A miscellany: a poem consoling a bereaved mother, an Ojibwa tribal song, and a travelogue of the Charleston earthquake describing devastation, relief efforts, and racial segregation; plus local Boston notes.

New Testament Textual Criticism in 1885

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Poems and essays addressing college moral and religious life—arguing for stronger Christian influence, temperance, and improved preaching; plus a note on New Testament textual criticism.

Notes on the Didache

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Warfield analyzes close parallels between the Didache and Pseudo-Athanasian tracts, arguing they preserve an ‘Egyptian’ Didache text and clarify its transmission and contents.

Old-Latin Biblical Texts

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Oct 1886 Sunday School Times: lessons and essays on the Resurrection (John 20), William Tyndale’s martyrdom, Patmos, teaching helps, antiquarian notes (John 19) and living by faith.

Textual Criticism of The Two Ways

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Scholarly textual-criticism of ‘The Two Ways’ (Didache) with proposed emendations and a genealogical stemma of witnesses; plus a positive review of John Brown’s Life of Bunyan.

The Prophecies of St. Paul: The Later Epistles

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Scholarly survey of St. Paul’s eschatology in his later epistles, examining the Second Advent, resurrection, judgment, and the believer’s heavenly inheritance and conformity to Christ.

The Prophecies of St. Paul: Thessalonians

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Study of St. Paul’s prophetic teaching in the Thessalonian epistles, emphasizing the Second Coming, final judgment, resurrection, and pastoral correction of premature expectations.

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