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[JAdmin]

Heard there is only a couple of ancient manuscripts that have Ps 68:27 (Ps. 68:26 in most translations) rendered with the name of the Everlasting LORD like Hagiographa, Naples 1486--87, and that there are only a few against almost 70 manuscripts against it. Notwitstanding, even if there are (what may look like) an infinite amount of manuscripts stating something, it still is NOT sufficient grounds to seal it true.

According to the ensamples thorowout Scripture, we ought to firstly seek the LORD for guidance, specially when it comes to HIS word, even in reverent prayer and fasting. For there are faithful matters, that only the spirit of God can fill us with the wisdom for edification sake. Otherwise error could be at the door, like that of man made processes to rely on the majority of manuscripts to choose a passage, that although can agree together, may still not line up acording to the precepts of the law of God. If the majority agree to something, it doesn't always make it true. Many ensamples in the Scripture can teach us that; such as during Noah's day, the majority laughed at him to scorn for building an ark, and the majority kept on drinking, eating and being merry till the flood shut them up. And remember how the majority of people condemn Christ to death, although no person can even bring a tittle or jot of evidence against Him. Still it was meant to happen, because it was even the salvation plan of the Everlasting Lord GOD from the very beginning, even in HIS first major hint by slaying the first animal to properly cloth Adam and Eve's sin (or shame of unfaithfulness, and ours too). And let's not forget why God accepted Abel's offering over Cain's. Or even the ensample of Abraham (even in his old age who kept on believing the promise of God that the LORD would multiply his seed like the number of the sea sand and the stars, when even his aged wife questioned it) and after the promise was fulfilled, and afterwards later he was asked to bring him to be sacrified, and Abraham (from whom's lineage Christ would come in the flesh) faithfully obeyed and when his son Isaac question "The fire and wood are here but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" Abraham faithfully answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son."
The point is that we must trust firstly on the witness of the promised edification in the Everlasting LORD GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We must trust the LORD even when discerning the correct rendering of the Scriptures; because the majority of manuscripts together can be wrong, even if many agree to the same wrong thing. And even if there may of been an ancient source change that initially propagated to divers manuscripts, let it be by design, reverance, or what-have-it; the manner is true only according to the law, that only two or three witnesses are needed to prove a matter like many other Scriptural ensamples that only needs a meek mind and humble heart that trusts on the promises of God. For it is elementary my dear brethren: it isn't the majority of witnesses that matters, it is the faithful witness with the evident testimony. Therefore if even two manuscripts faithfully have this verity based upon the evident truth of the commandments of God, it will be right even above thousands of thousands against it.

Here is an interesting article I had posted at the TNK project.
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