Revelation 22:18

The final Testimony of the Seer and his Benediction, Revelation 22:18-21

18. For I testify Omit "for."

If anyman shall add&c. Deuteronomy 4:2; Deuteronomy 12:32. The parallel of those passages proves, that the curse denounced is on those who interpolate unauthorised doctrinesin the prophecy, or who neglect essential ones; not on transcribers who might unadvisedly interpolate or omit something in the true text. The curse, if understood in the latter sense, has been remarkably ineffective, for the common text of this book is more corrupt, and the true text oftener doubtful, than in any other part of the N. T. But it may be feared that additions and omissions in the more serious sense have also been frequently made by rash interpreters. It is certain that the curse is designed to guard the integrity of thisBook of the Revelation, not to close the N. T. canon. It is not even certain that this was the last written of the canonical books.

unto thesethings] Better simply unto them: an unemphatic pronoun being used. Though it cannot grammatically refer to "the words of the prophecy," i.e. it no doubt does so refer ungrammatically.