2 Nephi 26:22 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
for he is the [ founder >js founderation 1|founder AT|foundation BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS] of all these things yea the [ founder >js founderation 1|founder AT|foundation BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS] of murder and works of darkness

As discussed under 1 Nephi 13:6, the original noun founder here in 2 Nephi 26:22 works perfectly well, in fact, better than the noun foundation that replaced it in the 1837 edition.

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

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