* Special note (i) "THE REMAINDER OF THE DEAD" (Revelation 20:5a):
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"but the remainder [G3062 loipoy] of the dead did not live again
until the thousand years were finished." (Revelation 20:5a).
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1. The above words are not found in the Bible’s oldest Greek manuscript of the Revelation, the Codex Sinaiticus. Nor are they found in the oldest Aramaic manuscript, the Khabouris Codex.
2. The words are listed as spurious in Tischendorf "List of spurious texts".
3. The words appear to contradict the scriptures that talk about a day when the dead are raised:
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"God has set A DAY on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead." (Acts 17:31).
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Some scholars involved with translation of the Greek texts into English believe the words found in the first sentence in Revelation 20:5 were possibly added as a note at some point by someone - either in the margins, or in-between the lines (a common practice during the first few hundred years A.D), and later scribes who were copying the text were not sure whether or not the words were supposed to be there, and copied the text with those words, to be safe (a.k.a an interpolation).
4. Omitting the sentence does not affect the meaning of what is being said regarding the souls John saw, who had been beheaded:
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands;
and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." (Revelation 20:4-6, with the sentence omitted).
Nothing more can or should be said about that sentence in Revelation 20:5, because:
"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." (Revelation 22:18-19).
An accidental addition (if that's the case) is better than a deliberate omission.
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