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Square Brackets:
A closing square bracket, without an opening bracket, is usually used in this document to show that an item is part of a list of items. Words which are [enclosed] in a pair of square brackets are usually words which are added to the text. The text is usually the essential word of God. The basis on which the bracketed words are added to the words of the most high God is that they already appear in the text, or the word is some form of the verb "to be". The reader should be aware that the word of God does not state that any forms of the verb "to be" have been omitted from the word of God, not does the word of God state that any words which appear in the text could or should be used again in the nearby text. These additional words might therefore be wrong. The reader is therefore encouraged to examine each instance of additional words in brackets in order to be sure that they do in fact belong where they are shown. While considering each instance, the reader is also encouraged to consider the possibility that more words in brackets could and should have been inserted into the text. A useful exercise in this regard is to examine the Ninety-first Psalm. Despite the fact that it might or might not be a portion of the word of God, the psalm is nevertheless useful in that it is constructed in the form of an endless loop. Furthermore, the psalm is constructed in such a way that many of the phrases from its preceding verses are implied in the succeeding verses. The Ninety-first Psalm therefore shows that the people of that culture, which is an Oriental culture, were accustomed to mentally inserting phrases from the preceding verses into the succeeding verses. Another custom of that culture was to imply an entire Psalm by merely reciting the opening line of it. An instance of this custom is shown in the portion labeled 132-b. It would therefore seem have been legitimate to have inserted the entire Twenty-second Psalm in portion 132-b.

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