Alma 32:40 Textual Variants

In this passage, the 1830 typesetter accidentally deleted it is, the reading in both manuscripts. The 1908 RLDS edition restored the it is, based on the reading in the printer’s manuscript. In addition to restoring it is to the LDS text, it would also help if a colon was placed after it is in both the LDS and RLDS texts, along with removing the comma after thus (the comma was introduced in the 1849 LDS edition):

• Alma 32:40 (revised punctuation)
  • And thus it is: if ye will not nourish the word, looking forward with an eye of faith to the fruit thereof, ye can never pluck of the fruit of the tree of life.

Elsewhere in the text there are five occurrences of “and thus it is” (1 Nephi 9:6, 1 Nephi 14:30, 1 Nephi 22:31, Alma 13:9, and Helaman 12:26), although each of these five examples is followed by the word Amen rather than by a conditional clause.

It should be noted that there is actually one occurrence of “and thus if ” in the Book of Mormon text:

• Helaman 10:8
  • and thus if ye shall say unto this temple it shall be rent in twain and it shall be done

In any event, the simple clause “and thus it is” definitely does occur in the Book of Mormon text, including here in Alma 32:40.