Jacob 7:9 Textual Variants

but I know that there is no Christ neither hath been nor [never >js ever 1|never A|ever BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] will be

Joseph Smith usually removed instances of multiple negation in his editing for the 1837 edition, including two instances of “nor never”, here in Jacob 7:9 and later in the book of Alma:

Alma 30:28
- that they should—if they did not do according to their words— offend some unknown being which they say is God a being which never hath been seen nor known which never was nor [vever 0|never >js ever 1|never A|ever BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] will be

The original text had no instances of the standard “nor ever”, only these two of “nor never”. For a general discussion regarding the removal of double negatives from the text, see multiple negation in volume 3.

Summary: Restore the original multiple negative in Jacob 7:9 (“there is no Christ / neither hath been nor never will be”).

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

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