We should take note that the original text of the Book of Mormon described the "terrible gulf" which divided them as the "sword of the justice of the eternal God" and not "the word of the justice . . ." Apparently Oliver Cowdery made an error when copying the word "sword" from the original text onto the printer's copy. [Royal Skousen, "How Joseph Smith Translated the Book of Mormon: Evidence from the Original Manuscript" in Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1998, p. 31]