A textual variant is any place among the manuscripts in which there is some discrepancy as to wording, spelling, or word order. Now, if 1000 manuscripts say “Jesus Christ” in one place and another 1000 say “Christ Jesus” in the same place in the text, that counts as one variant. And if only one late, unimportant manuscript differs from all the rest of the manuscripts in the wording, spelling, or word order, that too counts as a textual variant.

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