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John, Mark, Matthew, and Luke were developed through direct Greek analysis, lexical work, and manuscript comparison. Where surviving witnesses materially disagree, the competing Greek readings and their effect on English remain open to the reader.

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SBLGNT

standardized inspectable Greek reference edition

Textual basis

SBL Greek New Testament

Edited by Michael W. Holmes. The project's standardized, publicly inspectable Greek reference edition. It is not presented as retroactive proof that every existing chapter originated from one uniform printed edition.

This is an honest reference claim, not a retroactive claim that all completed work began from one uniform printed edition. Material manuscript forks remain independently documented at the reading they affect.

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Translation record

Matthew 24

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οὐ μὴ ἀφεθῇ ... λίθος ἐπὶ λίθον

LEXICONTRANSLATIONhigh confidence

How absolute is the prediction?

The emphatic negative says no stone will be left upon another without being demolished.

Why this default

‘A stone will certainly not be left here upon a stone’ is default because it preserves the emphatic negative and repeated noun. ‘Not one stone’ is natural English, while ‘every stone torn down’ foregrounds result.

Evidence

ExternalNo separate external-evidence note is recorded for this stable-text decision.

InternalThe decision record relies on the stated lexical, grammatical, or translation rationale.

Project defaulta stone will certainly not be left here upon a stone

Project default · emphatic form

Alternativenot one stone here will be left on another

Natural English

Alternativeevery stone here will be torn down

Result foregrounded

Reference roleStandardized inspectable reference; manuscript forks are independently reopened.

Revision historyNo decision-level revision has been recorded since the provenance ledger was introduced.

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