1 Nephi 11:7 Textual Variants

This variant was omitted in part 1 but needs to be mentioned. The typesetter for the 1892 RLDS edition accidentally set he instead of ye in “ye shall have witnessed him”. The 1908 RLDS edition, which used the 1892 edition as a copytext, maintained this error, but the 1953 RLDS edition restored the correct ye. Scribe 3 of 𝓞 initially omitted the ye here, but virtually immediately he inserted it supralinearly (there is no change in the level of ink flow for the necessary ye).

• 1 Nephi 11:18, 21, page 231, line 1
  • As explained under the addendum for 2 Nephi 19:6, the critical text will have no comma between Wonderful and Counselor.
• 1 Nephi 11:18, 21, page 232
  
  • Stan Thayne (personal communication) points out that the complaints were by “a friend of truth”, not by Alexander Campbell (an unfounded presumption on my part). The LDS reply is in volume 1, number 7 (not number 3), of the Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. The text for the last paragraph on page 232 of part 1 should therefore read as follows:
    • Perhaps the original motivation for adding the first “the Son of ” (in 1 Nephi 11:18) resulted from complaints by “a friend of truth” in a Baptist semimonthly publication called The Pioneer; there the author points to the use in the Book of Mormon (the 1830 edition) of the seemingly Catholic phraseology “the mother of God”:
      • The name of Jesus Christ, was declared to Nephi, 545 years before it was announced to Mary, and she, in true Roman phraseology, is called ‘the mother of God .’
    • The Latter-day Saints were aware of this complaint since they quoted this “friend of truth” in an early issue (volume 1, number 7, April 1835) of the Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate (see page 105 in the article “Trouble in the West”).
• 1 Nephi 11:29, page 234, line –16
  • In the critical text, the noun spirit should be capitalized when it clearly refers to deity, but not in general phrases referring to someone being “in the spirit” or “carried away in the spirit”. Thus the second line in the citation should read “they were carried away in the spirit from before my face”.

• 1 Nephi 11:29, page 234, line –8
  • For yet another example where the resultive that has been replaced by and, see under Ether 1:37.
• 1 Nephi 12:4, page 247, line –2
  • Instead of “maintain the past participle burnt ”, the summary should read “restore the past participle burnt ”.
• 1 Nephi 12:6, page 250, line 11
  • The phrase being referred to here is “the heaven”, not “in the heaven”.
• 1 Nephi 12:18, page 259, line –10
  • The closing parenthesis at the end of the line should be removed, giving “and then eight times in 1 Nephi 10.”
• 1 Nephi 13:4, 5, page 265, lines 9–11
  • Lyle Fletcher (personal communication) points out that the use of the word inert to refer to the foundation of the church may be inappropriately interpreted as referring to the apostles and prophets. Instead, a word such as stable in place of inert would probably work better here, thus: “Instead, foundation refers to the stable underlying structure of the church rather than its actual founding or forming.”