Alma 8:15 Textual Variants

Here the 1830 typesetter accidentally changed thee to you. But everywhere else in this passage (verses 15–17), the angel uses only the thou /thee /thy pronoun forms, never the ye /you /your ones:

• Alma 8:15–17 (earliest text)
  • blessed art thou Alma therefore lift up thy head and rejoice for thou hast great cause to rejoice for thou hast been faithful in keeping the commandments of God from the time which thou received thy first message from him behold I am he that delivered it unto thee and behold I am sent to command thee that thou return to the city of Ammonihah … for behold they do study at this time that they may destroy the liberty of thy people

A similar example of the exclusive use of the thou /thee /thy pronoun forms is found in Mosiah 3:3–4 (see the discussion under Mosiah 3:3). Both here and in Mosiah 3:3–4, an angel is speaking (here to Alma, in Mosiah 3:3–4 to king Benjamin). The critical text will maintain the systematic use of the second person singular pronoun forms in both passages.