Jacob 7:17 Textual Variants

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and he spake plainly unto them and denied the things which he had taught them and confessed the Christ and the power of the Holy Ghost and the [ministering 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRST|ministry O] of angels

The 1907 LDS vest-pocket edition accidentally replaced the gerundive ministering with the nongerundive ministry, perhaps because this final conjunct was joined with a preceding nongerundive noun, power. The Book of Mormon text otherwise has only “the ministering of angels” (two times, in Omni 1:25 and Moroni 7:25), never “the ministry of angels”.

Summary: Maintain the original expression “the ministering of angels” in Jacob 7:17.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 2

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