I was thinking about textual criticism the other day (the way people determine which readings of the many manuscripts we have are most-likely original, yes I’m a dork), and I realized something. Namely, I’m thankful to be living in a time when we have a sufficient base of manuscripts so that we can almost be certain of having the original text. Now, I could make up a super-spiritual reason for rejoicing over this (which I have, previously, I think on my old blog), but that would be lying this time. The real reason I’m thankful at the moment? A lot of textual variations were the incorporation of scribal notes in the margins. I just remembered that I have several older bibles with lots of really, really bad notes. I would hate for someone to dig up some “english manuscripts” in 2,000 years with my notes on them and think they might have been original.

Of course, even if that wasn’t the case, my notes would be rejected by means of spelling errors I’m sure.