This is something I've wondered about for a while, but is probably a silly question.
These verses are occasionally used as Scriptural proof against modifying any part of the Bible. That should be common sense, but looking at the context, it seems that these verses can only be talking about the book of Revelation itself, not the Bible in its entirety.
Is there any reason to believe that they refer to the whole, completed Bible?
Revelation 22:18-19 (KJV said:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
These verses are occasionally used as Scriptural proof against modifying any part of the Bible. That should be common sense, but looking at the context, it seems that these verses can only be talking about the book of Revelation itself, not the Bible in its entirety.
Is there any reason to believe that they refer to the whole, completed Bible?