We have seen two important things from the investigation presented above:
1. That the use "strain at" is elsewhere before and around 1611, and
2. That the accusation of "at" being a printer's error came about long after 1611.
I would like to point out that if we concede that even one printer's error from 1611 persists unidentified or uncorrected to the present, then this opens up the door for doubt upon any word of the Scripture today. But God has had editors care for his Word, and has raised up a large tradition of acceptance of the Bible as it is. Either we maintain what we have as a gift of God, or else follow the whims of those who doubt that we have the Scripture perfectly today.
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