The evidence for the current view rests solely upon the formerly accepted text of the Doxology (song), in which the living beings and the elders are represented as uniting, (Chapter 5:10, 11.) Criticism has shown that, in this instance, the text of the Recepta is corrupt; it has established the fact that heemas (us) and basileusomen (we will rule) are corruptions of autous (them) and basileusousin (they will rule), and has rendered probable (certain, in the opinion of Lange, Alford and Tischendorf,) the further fact that the heemas (us) of verse. is an interpolation.-- Am. Editor of Lange on Revelation, page 152.

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