Ether 12:2 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
wherefore Ether came forth in the days of Coriantumr and began to prophesy unto the people for he could not be [constrained 1A|restrained BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] because of the Spirit of the Lord which was in him

In his editing for the 1837 edition, Joseph Smith changed the verb constrain to restrain in three places. In 2 Nephi 1:26, he marked the change in 𝓟, but here in Ether 12:2 (and also in Ether 13:31) the change appears first in the 1837 edition itself. As explained under 2 Nephi 1:26, the critical text will restore the original constrain in all three cases.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 6

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