Alma 36:21 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
yea I say unto you my son that there can be nothing so exquisite and so bitter as [was 01ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP|were QRST] my [pains 01ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPQRST|pain > pains F] yea and again I say unto you my son that on the other hand there can be nothing so exquisite and sweet as was my joy

As discussed under Alma 36:20, in this chapter Alma always uses the plural pains to refer to his suffering. The critical text will here maintain the original plural pains but will restore the original singular verb form was. Note also the parallelism for the verb form in “as was my pains” and “as was my joy”.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 4

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