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OPC’s revision table is corroborating evidence, not a substitute for PCA verification." ], "limits": [ "This compares the named official PCA publication available at review time; it is not a survey of individual subscriptions or a claim about all Presbyterian editions.", "The hosted transcript is unchanged. Its apparent errors have not been silently repaired or certified as readings of the printed Schaff edition; a separate facsimile collation is needed.", "No complete modern edition, proof apparatus or publisher commentary is reproduced here. The audit summaries are original editorial comparisons." ], "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 10 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. 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No substantive doctrinal change identified." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 3 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 3, "pcaSections": 3, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 8, "last": 12 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 2; printed/PDF pp. 8–12", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=8" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 2, 3 ], "kind": "transcription-review", "summary": "The hosted transcript has foundation where the PCA edition has fountain, and duplicates head after Godhead. These are baseline/source readings needing separate facsimile review, not established PCA doctrinal amendments." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 8 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 8, "pcaSections": 8, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 }, { "historicalSection": 4, "pcaSection": 4 }, { "historicalSection": 5, "pcaSection": 5 }, { "historicalSection": 6, "pcaSection": 6 }, { "historicalSection": 7, "pcaSection": 7 }, { "historicalSection": 8, "pcaSection": 8 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 12, "last": 17 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 3; printed/PDF pp. 12–17", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=12" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 4 ], "kind": "wording", "summary": "The hosted sentence includes is after number; the PCA sentence omits it. The assertion that the number cannot change is retained." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 2 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 2, "pcaSections": 2, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 17, "last": 19 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 4; printed/PDF pp. 17–19", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=17" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [] }, { "chapter": 5, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 7 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 7, "pcaSections": 7, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 }, { "historicalSection": 4, "pcaSection": 4 }, { "historicalSection": 5, "pcaSection": 5 }, { "historicalSection": 6, "pcaSection": 6 }, { "historicalSection": 7, "pcaSection": 7 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 19, "last": 25 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 5; printed/PDF pp. 19–25", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=19" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 5, 6 ], "kind": "wording", "summary": "Minor readings include unto/upon for dependence on God, and occasion/occasions of sin. No substantive doctrinal revision is established by these differences." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 6 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 6, "pcaSections": 6, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 }, { "historicalSection": 4, "pcaSection": 4 }, { "historicalSection": 5, "pcaSection": 5 }, { "historicalSection": 6, "pcaSection": 6 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 26, "last": 29 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 6; printed/PDF pp. 26–29", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=26" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 2 ], "kind": "wording", "summary": "The order of parts and faculties is reversed. Both versions extend corruption to the whole person." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 6 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 6, "pcaSections": 6, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 }, { "historicalSection": 4, "pcaSection": 4 }, { "historicalSection": 5, "pcaSection": 5 }, { "historicalSection": 6, "pcaSection": 6 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 29, "last": 34 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 7; printed/PDF pp. 29–34", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=29" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 3, 6 ], "kind": "transcription-review", "summary": "The hosted transcript reads offered rather than offereth, lacks eternal before life in the closing promise of 7.3, and has aud for and in 7.6. These source/transcription variants are recorded without changing the hosted text or treating them as established PCA amendments." }, { "sections": [ 4 ], "kind": "wording", "summary": "There is a minor article difference before reference; the covenant/testament claim remains. Compound spelling and incapable/uncapable also vary." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 8 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 8, "pcaSections": 8, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 }, { "historicalSection": 4, "pcaSection": 4 }, { "historicalSection": 5, "pcaSection": 5 }, { "historicalSection": 6, "pcaSection": 6 }, { "historicalSection": 7, "pcaSection": 7 }, { "historicalSection": 8, "pcaSection": 8 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 34, "last": 42 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 8; printed/PDF pp. 34–42", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=34" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 1, 2 ], "kind": "transcription-review", "summary": "The hosted 8.1 lacks unto before whom, and 8.2 has fake where the PCA prints take. These are apparent transcript/source problems, not a PCA change to the doctrine of the incarnation. The historical display is left unchanged pending a separate facsimile collation." }, { "sections": [ 7 ], "kind": "wording", "summary": "The verbal form acteth becomes acts. American spelling also changes saviour to savior." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 5 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 5, "pcaSections": 5, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 }, { "historicalSection": 4, "pcaSection": 4 }, { "historicalSection": 5, "pcaSection": 5 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 42, "last": 45 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 9; printed/PDF pp. 42–45", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=42" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 1, 2 ], "kind": "wording", "summary": "The PCA adds it in the description of natural liberty and uses was rather than is for Adam’s original ability. No doctrinal amendment is identified." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 4 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 4, "pcaSections": 4, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 }, { "historicalSection": 4, "pcaSection": 4 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 45, "last": 50 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 10; printed/PDF pp. 45–50", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=45" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 1, 3, 4 ], "kind": "wording", "summary": "Minor article/spelling variants occur; law becomes laws in the reference to other religions. The assertions about effectual calling, infants and salvation are unchanged in substance." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 6 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 6, "pcaSections": 6, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 }, { "historicalSection": 4, "pcaSection": 4 }, { "historicalSection": 5, "pcaSection": 5 }, { "historicalSection": 6, "pcaSection": 6 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 50, "last": 56 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 11; printed/PDF pp. 50–56", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=50" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 1, 3 ], "kind": "presentation", "summary": "Anything is joined rather than written as two words; punctuation and capitalization vary." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 1 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 1, "pcaSections": 1, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 56, "last": 57 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 12; printed/PDF pp. 56–57", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=56" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [] }, { "chapter": 13, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 3 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 3, "pcaSections": 3, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 58, "last": 60 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 13; printed/PDF pp. 58–60", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=58" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 1, 2 ], "kind": "wording", "summary": "The PCA wording includes once before effectually called and uses abiding rather than abideth. Both describe real sanctification that remains incomplete in this life." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 3 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 3, "pcaSections": 3, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 60, "last": 64 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 14; printed/PDF pp. 60–64", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=60" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [] }, { "chapter": 15, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 6 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 6, "pcaSections": 6, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 }, { "historicalSection": 4, "pcaSection": 4 }, { "historicalSection": 5, "pcaSection": 5 }, { "historicalSection": 6, "pcaSection": 6 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 64, "last": 67 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 15; printed/PDF pp. 64–67", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=64" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 3 ], "kind": "wording", "summary": "The placement of it in the necessity-of-repentance sentence changes. Its denial of repentance as satisfaction and its assertion of necessity remain." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 7 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 7, "pcaSections": 7, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 }, { "historicalSection": 4, "pcaSection": 4 }, { "historicalSection": 5, "pcaSection": 5 }, { "historicalSection": 6, "pcaSection": 6 }, { "historicalSection": 7, "pcaSection": 7 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 67, "last": 74 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 16; printed/PDF pp. 67–74", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=67" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 3, 6, 7 ], "kind": "wording", "summary": "Besides/beside, a/an and a sentence-opening yet vary. The PCA text still retains the historical teaching about unregenerate works in 16.7; it does not receive the PCUSA’s separate 1903 rewrite of that paragraph." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 3 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 3, "pcaSections": 3, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 74, "last": 78 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 17; printed/PDF pp. 74–78", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=74" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 2 ], "kind": "presentation", "summary": "Freewill/free will differs in spacing. No substantive doctrinal change identified." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 4 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 4, "pcaSections": 4, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 }, { "historicalSection": 4, "pcaSection": 4 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 79, "last": 82 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 18; printed/PDF pp. 79–82", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=79" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 1, 3, 4 ], "kind": "wording", "summary": "A/the before state of grace differs; everyone and meantime are joined rather than spaced. The chapter’s account of assurance remains unchanged in substance." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 7 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. Wording and transcript variants, where found, are recorded separately.", "historicalSections": 7, "pcaSections": 7, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 }, { "historicalSection": 4, "pcaSection": 4 }, { "historicalSection": 5, "pcaSection": 5 }, { "historicalSection": 6, "pcaSection": 6 }, { "historicalSection": 7, "pcaSection": 7 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 83, "last": 92 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 19; printed/PDF pp. 83–92", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=83" } ], "changes": [], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 6 ], "kind": "transcription-review", "summary": "The hosted transcript says covenant of words in one occurrence; the PCA prints works. This apparent transcription/source problem must not be described as a PCA doctrinal amendment. The hosted reading is preserved for this task." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "status": "substantive-difference", "summary": "An adopted-text difference is identified below; ordinary wording and transcript variants are listed separately.", "historicalSections": 4, "pcaSections": 4, "sectionMap": [ { "historicalSection": 1, "pcaSection": 1 }, { "historicalSection": 2, "pcaSection": 2 }, { "historicalSection": 3, "pcaSection": 3 }, { "historicalSection": 4, "pcaSection": 4 } ], "comparisonPages": { "first": 92, "last": 98 }, "reviewStatus": "source-checked-editorial", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-14", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 20; printed/PDF pp. 92–98", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=92" } ], "changes": [ { "id": "civil-enforcement", "kind": "adopted-text-difference", "historicalSections": [ 4 ], "pcaSections": [ 4 ], "title": "Civil enforcement removed", "summary": "The PCA paragraph retains ecclesiastical censure but omits the historical closing authorization for the civil magistrate to proceed against the described opinions and practices.", "citations": [ { "sourceId": "pca-wcf-2022", "locator": "Chapter 20; printed/PDF pp. 92–98", "supports": "Direct comparison with the PCA-published confession", "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=92" } ], "notSubscriptionException": true } ], "wordingVariants": [ { "sections": [ 2 ], "kind": "comparison-print-review", "summary": "The official 2022 PDF visibly prints if matters where the hosted transcript has in matters (p. 95). This apparent printing/source variant is separate from the documented amendment in 20.4; no doctrinal intention is inferred from the letter difference." }, { "sections": [ 4 ], "kind": "wording", "summary": "Power/powers differs in the opening reference to ordained authority, apart from the substantive deletion summarized above." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "status": "no-substantive-difference", "summary": "All 8 sections map directly to the PCA chapter. 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