[Page 64]For example, when Joseph Smith got to 2 Nephi 17:6 (Isaiah 7:6) in his translation of the Book of Mormon, he would have seen the following text in vision: Let us go up against Judah and vex it and let us make a breach therein for us and set a king in the midst of it the son of Tabeal Thus saith the Lord God It shall not stand. Similarly, the italicized “namely” that is omitted in the Book of Mormon from 2 Nephi 17:20 is important in clarifying that the king of Assyria is not the one hiring a razor; he is the razor. There are at least three plausible explanations for his use of “which” in this instance. And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. Learn how →. It could have been a lucky guess. : then take another stick, and write upon, it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, . As this passage reads in the KJV, the Lord is telling the people not to understand the truth. Although we have no record of Joseph Smith expressing the suspicion of italicized words that Wright presumes, a dismissive attitude toward [Page 58]the KJV’s italicized words was expressed in an article entitled “Errors in the Bible” in a Latter-day Saint newspaper in 1833: As to the errors in the bible, any man possessed of common understanding, knows, that both the old and new testaments are filled with errors, obscurities, italics and contradictions, which must be the work of men.25. The KJV and Book of Mormon are literal interpretations while the JST is an interpretive translation that is also correct. He would have been able to tell that a verb had been omitted either before or after “a great forsaking” and again either before or after “a tenth.” Since the context sets these events in the future, adding “there shall be” would have been an obvious option at both locations. The Missing Words Hypothesis best explains the variants in the two Book of Mormon Isaiah chapters that were sampled for this analysis, as well as the variants that [Page 105]are dependent on polysemy of English words and the variants in biblical passages that are quoted more than once. Thus we have four chapters and four verses to account for. The addition of these words at locations unassociated with the KJV’s italicized words suggests that Joseph Smith was not reading from a physical Bible. Using the Original and Printer's Manuscripts of the Book of Mormon, Latter-day Saint scholar Royal Skousen has identified that none of the King James language contained in the Book of Mormon could have been copied directly from the Bible. As biblical scholar Craig Blomberg points out, “The messianic era, the millennial kingdom, and eventually the new heavens and the new earth often blend together in characteristic prophetic shortening” (The New American Commentary, Broadman Press, 1992, 22:75). This includes the passages claimed to belong to Deutero-Isaiah. Martin ignores that as translation literature, the Book of Mormon may well follow the KJV when the documents upon which the KJV is based match those of the Nephite text. In addition to failing this biblical test, Deuteronomy 13:1-3 also speaks against Joseph Smith. When actually dictating the full Book of Mormon for the world to read and understand, however, Joseph Smith may have decided to try to smooth the text by adding words whenever words appeared to be missing. In December of 1827, Joseph Smith and Emma moved to Harmony, Pennsylvania, and Joseph was able to translate without persecution. Wherefore when I came was there was no man when I called yea was there was none to answer … behold at my rebuke I dry up the sea I make the rivers a wilderness and their fish stinketh to stink, [Page 90]There are two polysemous words in this passage: “wherefore” and “make.” In this passage in the KJV, “wherefore” means “why.” In the quotation in the Book of Mormon, it means “therefore.” In the KJV, “make” means to transform something into something else. The remainder of this article will look more broadly at the Book of Mormon manuscript evidence beyond 2 Nephi 16 and 17. This statistical evidence led us to a single conclusion: based on style alone, the book of Isaiah definitely appears to be the work of one man. The appearance of words set in italic type in the quoted Bible chapters could have been confusing and seemed inconsistent unless the remainder of the Book of Mormon also distinguished words that lacked direct counterparts in the original language.49 One thing that is clear is that the option of distinguishing italicized words was [Page 67]not chosen by the translator of the Book of Mormon, or if it was, it was not successfully implemented, since the KJV’s italicized words that do appear in the printed Book of Mormon are not distinguished from the rest of the text in any way. That hypothesis would have Joseph Smith intentionally omitting the italicized words in verse 5, causing obvious damage to grammar and sense, while keeping the italicized words in verse 3 that are less essential. For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. These replacements are not expected under the Ancient Variants Hypothesis since they do not change the sense or increase the clearness. "[16], Adam Clarke agrees with Bullinger. Twelve variants in these chapters consist of the omission, without replacement, of the KJV’s italicized words: Then said I Woe is me for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips (2 Nephi 16:5), And he laid it upon my mouth (2 Nephi 16:7), Then I said Here am I send me (2 Nephi 16:8), And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel went up (2 Nephi 17:1), For the head of Syria is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (2 Nephi 17:8), The Lord shall bring upon thee and upon thy people and upon thy father’s house days that have not come from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah even the king of Assyria (2 Nephi 17:17), In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired namely by them beyond the river by the king of Assyria (2 Nephi 17:20), And it shall come to pass for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter (2 Nephi 17:22), [Page 72]And it shall come to pass in that day that every place shall be where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings it which shall even be for briars and thorns (2 Nephi 17:23), And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock there shall not come thither the fear of briars and thorns (2 Nephi 17:25). According to Deuteronomy 18:22, God’s prophets will always prophesy the truth–they will be 100% accurate. He introduces his second recitation by saying that he is repeating himself (“And now ye remember that I said unto you…”). The effect of increasing parallelism does not, by itself, point to a satisfactory explanation for these variants, since the net effect of Book of Mormon variants in these two chapters is to decrease parallelism, not increase it. Mormon apologists say that the “sealed document” mentioned in verse 11 prophesies the Book of Mormon, one of four sacred scriptures used by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Although there are other aspects of the text, not evaluated here, that would also serve to test these hypotheses, it would be impossible to evaluate all in an article of reasonable size. It is clear that the writings of Isaiah held special significance for Jesus Christ and Nephi (see 2 Nephi 11:8, 2 Nephi 25:5; 3 Nephi 20:11; 3 Nephi 23:1-3). And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.”. Four consist of the replacement of one word with another word that has more or less the same contextual meaning: the replacement of “it” with “they” in 2 Nephi 16:13, “even” with “yea” in 2 Nephi 17:6, and “depth” with “depths” and “height” with “heights” in 2 Nephi 17:11. The texts, if they survived outside temple deposits and survived Babylonian or other foreign invasion, would have been deposited in environments for which it is doubtful they would survive for hundreds of years. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. They would also allow for intentional editing by Joseph Smith’s scribe, as well as adaptation of Biblical quotations by Nephi, Jacob, or other Book of Mormon characters since they are all silent on those topics. The text as it stands in the KJV makes sense — the deserted land, once fruitful, will be overrun with briars and thorns. There is a great example of this kind of difference in the Lord's prayer. In any case, the Ancient Variants Hypothesis fails to explain almost all of the variants in these passages. [14] Although the name Jehovah is of more recent origin than the original Book of Mormon plates, it does not mean this name could not properly be used in translating a more ancient Hebrew title denoting the eternal I AM. Why was this done? By using the KJV language, we are probably being clued in to the fact that the potential differences aren't the important parts of the Book of Mormon. This approach was taken by one author in an old article in the Ensign. … This analysis based on textual criticism confirms … that the Book of Mormon text of the sermon is not a genuine translation from an ancient language but Smith’s nineteenth-century targumic expansion of the English KJV.22.

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