Clever linguistics work. That's not an obvious conclusion.
However, who are we to tell God how to do His Work. Ours is just to figure it out.
That's not a premise which would have occurred to most people, and you were wise to adopt a proven method to refute the easy conclusions.
The "scientific method" is vastly overrated, don't you think? It is just used to "prove" what the anti-Christ wants people to believe.