B. H. Roberts

File — Box: 4, Folder: 20

Identifier: I

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

"Data of Verbal and Grammatical Errors in the Book of Mormon," 41 pp., says: "Whence all these blunders! Surely neither the Lord nor any instrument fashioned by his wisdom can be held accountable for these errors. The truth must be, that the Prophet Joseph, through the inspiration of the spirit of the Lord on his mind, and aided in some way by the Urim [and] Thummim, obtained the meaning of the Nephite characters as he could think in, and as his knowledge of English was imperfect, the language of an untutored boy in the western wilderness of New York, he used just such phraseology as he was master of, and hence these blunders in the use of wrong words and wrong grammatical forms. Again I say, that in none of these verbal errors do I find that which mitigates against the divine origin of the Book of Mormon or its translation by the inspiration of God resting upon the mind of the Prophet."

Dates

1820-1984

Conditions Governing Access

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