Is it true that Rev. 20:5 is not found in any of the earlier manuscripts? E. J. W.
This question has been answered at least once a year for the last three years. In one or two of the early versions the verse is wanting in the original, but it was probably omitted by mistake. It appears in the others, and is by most eminent critics not even considered doubtful. The best and latest Greek text, of Wescott and Hort, does not question, neither do the Revisers. The text is without doubt genuine, and in harmony with the teaching of Scripture.