“This passage involves two changes. The first deals with the word order. The original manuscript reads, ‘state of awful wickedness,’ which Oliver Cowdery initially copied into [the Printer’s Manuscript] as ‘awful state of woundedness,’ but then immediately corrected the word order to ‘state of awful woundedness,’ making [the Printer’s Manuscript] agree with [the Original Manuscript]. The 1830 edition followed the original reading. But in his editing … for the 1837 edition, Joseph Smith restored the initial order found in [the Printer’s Manuscript] and then replaced the word woundedness with blindness—that is, ‘awful state of blindness.’ … Textually there is clear evidence linking spiritual blindness with a state of wickedness” (Skousen, Analysis of Textual Variants, 290–91).