Enos 1:14 Textual Variants

for at the present our [struggleings 1|struggles A|strugglings BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] were vain in restoring them to the true faith

Instead of setting strugglings, the 1830 compositor set struggles, perhaps accidentally. The correct strugglings was restored in the 1837 edition by reference to 𝓟. In this same book of Enos, we find another instance of strugglings:

Enos 1:11
- and I prayed unto him with many long strugglings for my brethren

Elsewhere in the Book of Mormon text, we have one example of strugglings and three of struggle(s):

Mosiah 7:18
- notwithstanding our many strugglings which have been in vain
Mosiah 7:18
- yet I trust there remaineth an effectual struggle to be made
Alma 27:1
- when those Lamanites which had gone to war against the Nephites had found after their many struggles for to destroy them that it was in vain to seek their destruction
Mormon 6:6
- and knowing it to be the last struggle of my people

The first example from Mosiah 7:18 has strugglings and is nearly parallel to the reading in Enos 1:14—both refer to “strugglings being (in) vain”.

Summary: Retain strugglings in Enos 1:14, the earliest extant reading; the use of strugglings is consistent with the use of strugglings in Enos 1:11 and Mosiah 7:18.

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

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