Question by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 41.

Question.

By Editor

"SOME claim that Rev. 20:5 is the work of the papacy, and cannot be found in the oldest manuscripts. Is this the case?" A. W. R.

We suppose that the brother means that some claim that the insertion of Rev. 20:5 is the work of the papacy. There is no foundation for such a claim. There is nothing about the verse that should lead any one to suppose that it is an interpolation of the Roman Church. No commentary of which we have any knowledge gives any intimation that the verse is not genuine. In Greenfield's Greek Testament a note is made to the effect that some omit the verse, but that Griesbach thinks it should be retained. But all the commentators treat the verse as though they had never heard any doubts as to its genuineness.