Lin

It was quite a shock to me to study this passage and find the words “symbol of” were added into the text. I believe in the inerrancy of the Word but not in the inerrancy of the translators!

Thier whole house of cards comes tumbling down without ‘symbol of’ and even with it added in this interpretation makes it very confusing when reading verses 11 and 12. Anyone studying the Word deeply  would spot a contradiction and know that the translators got something wrong. The ONLY way to make this work for them is to proof text this passage. And that, of course, it what they have done.