Alma 40:8 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
all is as one day with God and [ 01ABCDEFGIJLMNOPQRST|the HK] time only is measured unto man

Here in Alma 40:8, the 1874 RLDS edition inserted the definite article the before time. Of course, this change produces a difficult reading, although one could interpret the time here as referring to the specific time between death and the resurrection. But we do not have a specific statement here; in this passage Alma is referring to time in general, thus the preceding statement “all is as one day with God”. The 1908 RLDS edition restored the original reading here without the definite article the before time.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 40:8 the occurrence of time without any definite article (“and time only is measured unto man”).

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 4

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