Alma 16:19 Textual Variants

Here the 1830 edition added the word also before the last conjoined noun phrase (“the resurrection of the dead”). This addition was unnecessary. Perhaps the 1830 typesetter wanted to separate off “the resurrection of the dead” from the previous reference to the sufferings and death of the Son of God. Still, Christ himself was the first one resurrected. We find a similar instance where sufferings, death, and resurrection are all conjoined, and as here in Alma 16:19 there is no also associated with the noun resurrection:

• Mosiah 18:2
  • yea concerning that which was to come and also concerning the resurrection of the dead and the redemption of the people which was to be brought to pass through the power and sufferings and death of Christ and his resurrection and ascension into heaven

The critical text will restore the earliest reading here in Alma 16:19, which lacks the also before resurrection.