Mosiah 3:9 Textual Variants

The 1830 typesetter omitted the as, either by accident or because he thought it sounded better without the as. There are two cases that support the lack of as:

• 2 Nephi 9:42
  • and save they shall cast these things away and consider themselves fools before God …
• Mosiah 21:33
  • and Ammon declined doing this thing considering himself an unworthy servant

Nonetheless, there is one example where consider is used with as:

• Helaman 14:16
  • for all mankind by the fall of Adam being cut off from the presence of the Lord are considered as dead both as to things temporal and to things spiritual

Thus either usage, with or without as, is possible. The critical text will therefore follow the earliest textual sources in determining whether as occurs with “to consider X (as) Y”. Here in Mosiah 3:9, the as will be restored.