> The copies [of the Abiding Book] aren't photocopies. They are
> handwritten copies some of
> which have been made from another copy. The scribes will have
> introduced errors, corrected what they saw as errors, left bits out
> and added the sayings of local religious people.
This is very true.
> That's assuming the copies are in the original language. If not
> you've got mistranslations on top of that.
They are in the original language; you don't translate the Abiding Book. Well, there's bound to be some weird protestant-type sect somewhere that does such a thing, but they're on the fringes already. It's like the medieval Bible always being in Latin, or the medieval Koran always being in classical Arabic. In fact, writing in the vernacular *at all* is considered a pretty nutty thing to do in the West.
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