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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 6, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 6.

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Rev. 22:14.

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IN answer to a question, we reply, there is not sufficient ground to reject the common reading of this text. Some versions read— “Blessed are they who have washed their robes,” but Greenfield says it is “inferior to the received text.” Clarke does not notice this reading, though he was very frank to admit corrected readings, even when they were in strong opposition to his theology. The Syriac, which is confessedly an excellent version, has the common rendering—his commandments. Anderson’s Translation also confirms the Authorized Version. Anderson was a Disciple ; a member of the church which rejects “the commandments” wherever it is possible to do so.
When an individual boldly and confidently affirms that the received text is not correct, in this verse, we think he acts without sufficient warrant, and that he is governed more by theology than by sound criticism.