{"id":3459,"date":"2012-03-10T14:55:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T19:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2015-08-08T21:29:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T01:29:23","slug":"worship-and-revelation-4-5-part-6-an-interesting-textual-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/worship-and-revelation-4-5-part-6-an-interesting-textual-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship and Revelation 4-5 – Part 6 – An interesting textual corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And we saw, at the climax of the heavenly scene in Rev 4-5, those present in God’s throne room fall down and worship<\/strong>. (5:14)<\/p>\n

Whom do they worship? Both<\/strong> God, and the Lamb, as the songs said. \u00a0(4:11, 5:11-13)<\/p>\n

But there’s an interesting textual variant. If you look in your old King James Version, which uses an inferior edition of the Greek New Testament, 5:14 reads:<\/p>\n

And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever<\/strong>. (emphasis added)<\/p>\n

All modern textual scholars seem to agree<\/a> that this is not the original reading, \u00a0in other words, that the words I just bolded were inserted into the book. Why?<\/p>\n

This is evidently a deliberate change<\/strong>, and not a scribal mistake (e.g. accidentally mis-spelling, repeating a line, skipping a line, etc.). Why would someone make this insertion?<\/p>\n

I can think of two reasons. Both depend on the assumption<\/strong> that only God himself should be worshiped.\u00a0As we’ve seen, chapter 5 shows Jesus being worshiped. But this can’t stand!<\/p>\n