The book you are holding makes a specific promise: every text complete, nothing quietly altered, every gap disclosed. A promise like that should be auditable. This page records two kinds of things — corrections made to the text after a printing went on sale, and disclosures the edition wants on the record even though they are not errors. It is updated whenever either occurs, and the printing each item applies to is always stated.
No corrections to the printed text have been reported or made since the first printing went on sale. When one is, it will appear here first — with the book, chapter and verse, the wording as printed, the corrected wording, and the source it was checked against.
Items the editor wants readers to know about, entered before publication. None alters the meaning of a text; all are stated in the book's own source notes as well.
These three chapters are printed from the World English Bible (public domain) rather than the King James Apocrypha used for the rest of the Maccabees, because a complete, legally clear KJV text of these chapters was not available in one piece at press time. The WEB is a modern-language translation and reads differently from the archaic KJV phrasing around it. Disclosed in the book's colophon to 2 Maccabees.
The final word of the verse, "joy," fell at a page turn in the 1917 scan used as the source and was supplied from Charles's standard text. It is the only word in the volume supplied rather than transcribed.
Several apparent gaps or jumps in verse numbering are faithful to the printed editions they were taken from and were deliberately not "fixed": 1 Enoch 10 (no numbers 14 or 16 in Charles's edition); 1 Enoch 90:13–19 (Charles prints the doublet verses in the order 13, 16, 19, 14, 17, 15, 18, and this edition follows him); 1 Enoch 91–93 (Charles's reconstruction of the Apocalypse of Weeks); 2 Enoch 48 (an unnumbered opening in the 1926 printing); 3 Enoch 48C (Odeberg's parallel recensions carry their own fragment numbering); Testament of Levi 6:3 and Testament of Zebulun 4:4 (numbers absent in Charles's own edition).
Where a century-old scan was ambiguous, the reading was resolved in favour of the obvious sense and logged: for example 2 Baruch 82:2 "very nigh" (scan: "very high"), and Testament of Issachar 4:1 "all that is well-pleasing" (scan artifact "air"). Classic optical-recognition errors of the kind (e.g. "shah" for "shall," "hfe" for "life") were corrected silently throughout, as any printing house would.
If you find a discrepancy between this edition and its stated source, the editor wants to know. Please include the book, chapter and verse, the wording as printed, and — if you can — the source you compared it against. Confirmed reports are credited here (by name or anonymously, your choice) and corrected in the next printing.
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