Originally posted by Spirit and Truth:
Once again, I am not KJVO. I have many bibles that I use for comparison. My point is that your name can not be written in a tree. Book is used in the majority of phrases. Why did they switch to tree in that version?
"Because "tree of life" is the true reading of Rev. 22:19. The reading "book of life" is not found in
any Greek manuscript of Revelation prior to Erasmus. The reading "book of life" shows up exclusively in Western Latin manuscripts and Fathers (and manuscripts later influenced by them) because of a scribal error in the transmission of the text. The Latin word for "tree" is
ligno, which some scribe mis-copied as
libro, the Latin word for "book." This corruption was made official in the Vulgate, which Erasmus back-translated from Latin into Greek for the last six verses of Revelation in his TR because his sole Greek copy of Revelation lacked those verses. The pedigree of the error is clearly traceable through the Old Latin to the Vulgate to the TR to the KJV.