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August 27, 2026

Title: Batch 4 — what is in this folder and what to do with it Author: Edward R. Cross Base Header Level: 2

Batch 4 — upload these 24 files

Every .md in this folder is a ready-to-upload copy of the corrected article. Destination is the server's …/public_html/cms/posts. They are byte-identical to the current CMS/{slug}.md, which remains the source of truth.

Do NOT publish or save any of these through the CMS dashboard — it strips the red Scripture spans, and every one of these files is full of them. FTP only.

Two kinds of change are in here

1. Supplied-word italics (30 corrections). The King James marks words the translators supplied; KJV-PCE.db records them in brackets; house style renders them as italics. Some were missing, and in The Lamb's Wife the raw [brackets] had been pasted through so readers saw them on the page. Silent — nothing spoken changed.

2. Quotation fidelity (25 corrections). Red-span text that differed from the King James — a wrong word, a dropped word, missing punctuation. Seven of these change spoken words.

⚠️ EIGHT ARTICLES NEED AUDIO REBUILT — the rest do not

Words changed in these eight, so the narration was regenerated and each was verified to carry the new reading:

| Article | What changed | |---|---| | following-paul-is-following-christ | jealousyemulation (Rom 11:14); was already namedwas named (Rom 15:20) | | not-sheep | was madeam made (Col 1:25) | | the-blood-of-christ-and-the-preaching-of-the-cross | AndBut (John 19:34) | | when-the-church-began-when-grace-was-given | And…enquireBut…inquire (Acts 19:39); ButAnd (Acts 2:17); given to megiven me (Eph 3:2); Eph 3:7 paraphrase quoted correctly | | the-mystery-of-faith-part-2 | often timesoftentimes (Heb 10:11) | | tongues | handhands (Judg 6:13) | | the-holy-apostles-of-ephesians-3-5 | I am of ApollosI of Apollos ×3 (1 Cor 1:12); as the Jewsas do the Jews (Gal 2:14) | | pauls-obedience-to-suffer-for-christs-name-sake | not only to be boundnot to be bound only (Acts 21:13) |

Their eight stale .m4a files have already been moved out of Article Audio/Final Audio/CMS Ready/ into Article Audio/_to_delete 2026-08-27 (stale — text corrected)/, so Convert Voice (safe).command will regenerate them on its next run. Delete that folder afterwards — they could not be removed from here (Operation not permitted on the mount).

The other sixteen articles are silent changes — italics and punctuation only. No narration, no audio.

Also upload

qa-private-upload/index.sqlite to the server's qa-private/ folder, as usual — the index was rebuilt after these edits.

Two things worth knowing before you check the files

  • Acts 19:39 now reads inquire, not enquire. That is the Pure Cambridge reading in KJV-PCE.db, which is this project's authority. It will look wrong against a different King James printing. It is not a typo.
  • In following-paul-is-following-christ the prose says provoke to jealousy while the quotation below it reads emulation. Both are right. Romans 11:11 reads jealousy; Romans 11:14 reads emulation. The prose is citing the other verse — do not "fix" it.

Originals of every file are in _pre-italic-fix backup 2026-08-27/ and _pre-fidelity-fix backup 2026-08-27/. Delete both once the upload is confirmed. Full detail and what was deliberately left alone: Corpus Conformity Backlog.md.

© 2026 Edward R. Cross

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Pastor Edward R. Cross

Grace Greater Than Our Sin

The Christian life is full of ups and downs. You face disappointments and heartbreaks, but the one thing you can always count on is the abiding presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. You learn that this cannot be said of any other.

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