3 Nephi 19:1 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
And now it came to pass that when Jesus [had 1ABCDEFGHIJKLNOPQRST|has M] ascended into heaven …

The 1905 LDS edition reads in the present perfect: “when Jesus has ascended into heaven”, an obvious typo. The subsequent 1911 LDS edition, set from the 1905 edition, has the correct past perfect, the reading of the earliest text.

Summary: Retain the use of the past perfect in 3 Nephi 19:1: “when Jesus had ascended into heaven”.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 6

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