Alma 2:16 Textual Variants

Here in his editing for the 1837 edition, Joseph Smith removed the redundant pronoun he that immediately follows the subject noun Alma. A similar instance of this kind, where the name and the pronoun are followed by a present participial clause, occurs later in this chapter, and Joseph also removed this instance of the redundant pronoun:

• Alma 2:30
  • and it came to pass that
    Alma [he >js NULL 1|he A| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] being a man of God being exercised with much faith …

There is one more example of this kind of editing on Joseph’s part:

• Helaman 1:16
  • Coriantumr [he 0A|he >js NULL 1| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] being a mighty man could stand against the Nephites

But in two cases, such redundant pronominal forms have been left unchanged in the text:

• Alma 63:5
  • Hagoth he being an exceeding curious man therefore he went forth and built him an exceeding large ship
• Ether 10:9
  • Morionton he being a descendant of Riplakish gathered together an army of outcasts

Obviously, these instances of a name acting as subject and being immediately followed by a redundant pronominal form of the name are all intended and will therefore be maintained in the critical text. For discussion of similar redundancies, see under subject repetition in volume 3.