Mosiah 26:22 Textual Variants

Scribe 2 of 𝓟 initially wrote “baptized into repentance”, but then he immediately corrected the preposition into to unto by overwriting the i with a u (there was no change in the level of ink flow, nor was there any dot for the i ). Undoubtedly, the original manuscript read unto. Elsewhere the text refers to “baptizing unto repentance” (12 times) or to “baptism unto repentance” (once, in Moroni 8:11). The use of unto follows the King James language in Matthew 3:11: “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance”.

Scribe 2 of 𝓟 frequently mixed up unto and into, at least initially as he copied from 𝓞 into 𝓟; in the following, I give the actual reading in 𝓟:

• Mosiah 26:27 & thin will I confess [into > unto 1] them
• Mosiah 26:27 & they shall depart [unto >% into 1] everlasting fire
• Mosiah 27:32 at the time the angel appeared [into > unto 1] them
• Alma 5:8 Behold I say [into > unto 1] you
• Alma 5:49 yea to speak [into > unto 1] my beloved Brethren
• Alma 9:16 therefore the Lord will be merciful [into > unto 1] them
• Mormon 6:15 & a few which had deserted over [into >% unto 1] the Lamanites

Except for the second example in Mosiah 26:27, scribe 2 initially wrote into in place of the correct unto (as here in Mosiah 26:22).