Mosiah 3:9 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and even after all this they shall consider him [as 1| ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] a man

The 1830 typesetter omitted the as, either by accident or because he thought it sounded better without the as. There are two cases that support the lack of as:

Nonetheless, there is one example where consider is used with as:

Thus either usage, with or without as, is possible. The critical text will therefore follow the earliest textual sources in determining whether as occurs with “to consider X (as) Y”. Here in Mosiah 3:9, the as will be restored.

Summary: Restore in Mosiah 3:9 the as in “they shall consider him as a man”, the reading of the printer’s manuscript (here the earliest extant source).

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

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