Alma 12:14 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and in this awful state we shall not durst look up to our God [𝓢① and >+ 𝓢② we and 1|and we ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOQRT|And we PS] would fain be glad if we could command the rocks and the mountains to fall upon us

Here scribe 2 of 𝓟 seems to have accidentally omitted the repeated subject pronoun we when he copied from 𝓞 into 𝓟; Oliver Cowdery supplied it when he proofed 𝓟 against 𝓞 (although Oliver supralinearly inserted the we before the conjunction and ). It is very probable that 𝓞 had the we since in this conjoined structure the repeated subject is optional.

Summary: Accept in Alma 12:14 the we that Oliver Cowdery supralinearly inserted in 𝓟; Oliver undoubtedly intended the we to follow the and.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 3

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