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I Said: “changes are small like Pharaoh hardening his hart instead of the lord hardening Pharaoh’s heart”

You Said That is not a small change that is changing the meaning and that is wrong.

It is a small change, but a significant one. my point was not that the changes did not change the meaning for if there was no change to meaning, why make the change? My point was that the changes were not for the most part more than a few words and fit into footnotes at the bottom of the page.

Consider this, if the meaning was wrong, and God directed the change, then it is right.

Here is a joke I enjoy on several levels, I hope you will read it in the proper spirit, if it offends you then I apologize for it is not meant to.

A young monk arrives at the monastery.

He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript.

So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up.

In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.

The head monk, says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son."

So, he goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years.

Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot.

So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing, "We missed the "R", we missed the "R".

His forehead is all bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks the old abbot, "What's wrong, father?"

With a choking voice, the old abbot replies,

"The word was celebrate."

Delphiuser