Jacob 4:11 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
that ye may obtain a resurrection according to the power of the resurrection which is in Christ and be presented as the firstfruits of Christ unto God having faith and having obtained a good hope of glory in him before he [manifesteth 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRST|manifested O] himself in the flesh

The 1907 LDS vest-pocket edition introduced the past-tense manifested in place of the presenttense manifesteth. Either tense will work here, although it appears that Jacob is speaking in the eternal present tense; note the use of the present-tense is earlier in this verse (“the power of the resurrection which is in Christ”). Thus the use of the present-tense manifesteth is acceptable, although unexpected. The 1907 past-tense reading has never been followed by any subsequent LDS edition since that vest-pocket edition was never used as a copy-text.

Summary: Retain in Jacob 4:11 the present-tense manifesteth, the reading of the earliest textual sources.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 2

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