Wouldn’t you know I’d run into the one person still alive who was there and actually talked with John!
How about these passages:
Deuteronomy 4:2
Do not add to what I commmand you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.
Proverbs 30:5
Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.
I will accept your sarcasm as an acknowledgment that you added to Revelation a sense it did not carry.
The Bible is a collection of books, of which Revelation is just one
The Addition of the Book of Revelation/Apocalypse shows how the Church under the grace of the Holy Spirit pulled together the Canon that is the Bible today. Church in scripture rejected the Shepherd of Hermas even though it was accepted as scripture by many Early Christians and put in Apocalypse even after objections by many
Syrian Christians in the 2nd century rejected it, Martin Luther initially considered it to be "neither apostolic nor prophetic" and stated that "Christ is neither taught nor known in it," and is not known of in the ancient church of the Georgians.
and that is interesting -- if someone tkes this to mean adding or removing from the collection of books that is the Bible, then perhaps one should also explain why one has not read Maccabees?