Alma 12:32 Textual Variants

The original manuscript is not extant here but probably read works. Scribe 2 of 𝓟 initially copied the word as work, but then almost immediately afterwards inserted inline the plural s (there is no change in the level of ink flow). As noted under Alma 7:24, scribe 2 frequently miswrote works as work.

Usage elsewhere in the text shows that either work or works can occur with the prepositional phrase “of justice”:

• Alma 42:13 except it should destroy the work of justice
• Alma 42:13 now the work of justice could not be destroyed
• Alma 42:22 the works of justice would be destroyed

Overall, the text is evenly divided between “the work of justice” and “the works of justice”; in each case, the critical text will follow the earliest reading.