A Note on These Writings
On how these pages are written, and by what measure
These pages are not about their author. They are about the truth: what Scripture says, what the church has believed across its history, and the duty laid on every believer to be a watchman and to bring every thought captive to the Word (2 Corinthians 10:5).
The writer's name is no secret; anyone can find it from the home page. But it is kept out of the way on purpose, so that nothing here rests on one man's authority. It rests on Scripture and on the long witness of the church. Where the author does appear in person, it is only as one of the warnings, his own failures and the things he learned the hard way, never as someone who has it figured out.
The substance, the convictions, the positions taken, the sources gathered, is the author's. Artificial intelligence (Claude) was used heavily as a tool: to help draft and edit the writing, to organize it, and to gather and amalgamate the supporting material, the Scripture text, the early church Fathers, older public-domain commentators such as John Gill, Matthew Henry, and the Pulpit Commentary, and the cross-references, which was then checked for accuracy. The judgments, and any errors that remain, are the author's.
This is all said plainly because honesty matters more than appearances. "Provide things honest in the sight of all men" (Romans 12:17).
Sources
Everything here is built on the labor of others. With gratitude, and so that credit lands where it is due — the fuller list, including the author's own library and study, is on the Sources & Thanks page:
- Scripture text. The King James Version (public domain); the Berean Standard Bible (BSB, bereanbible.com, freely dedicated to the public); and the Douay-Rheims (public domain) where the translations align.
- Verse commentary, all public domain: John Gill's Exposition, Matthew Henry, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, Adam Clarke, Keil & Delitzsch (Old Testament), and the Pulpit Commentary. Gathered via the helloao Bible API and BibleHub.
- The early church. The Catena Aurea (Thomas Aquinas's chain of the Fathers on the Gospels) and the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers (the Schaff editions), public domain, via CCEL and isidore.co; with Victorinus on the Apocalypse. The verse pop-ups and the Heard With the Fathers library quote, verbatim and attributed, Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp of Smyrna, the Epistle of Barnabas, the Epistle to Diognetus, the Didache, the Shepherd of Hermas, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Cyprian of Carthage, Augustine, and John Chrysostom, among others.
- Cross-references. OpenBible.info, used under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.
- Expanded canon. The deuterocanon, and the Books of Enoch and Jubilees in the R.H. Charles translations (public domain).
- BibleHub is linked throughout for reading further: interlinear text, lexicons, and additional commentary.
- C.S. Lewis is quoted only in short, cited excerpts under fair use; his work remains in copyright.
Scripture quotations are public domain (KJV, BSB, Douay-Rheims). Commentary and patristic sources are quoted verbatim, attributed, and public domain. If we have used your work and credited it wrongly or insufficiently, tell us and we will fix it.