Mosiah 2:38 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
which doth cause him to shrink from the presence of the Lord and doth fill his breast with guilt and pain and anguish which is like an unquenchable fire whose [ flames 1ABCDEGHKPS|flame FIJLMNOQRT] ascendeth up forever and ever

As discussed under 2 Nephi 9:16, the original phraseology (“flames ascendeth”) will be restored in the critical text. In the original text, the plural flames consistently takes the verb form ascendeth rather than the grammatically correct plural verb form ascend.

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

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