We ought to ask ourselves, What can we learn about God and about Scripture, assuming that God allowed variation to happen? Is there a story to tell that points us to something good and is in line with what God is doing in our days? Let me begin with three initial observations. First, nowhere in Scripture do we get an explicit treatment of textual variation. Revelation 22:18–19 does warn against adding or taking away from the words of the book. Though this warning may resonate with similar warnings
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