Alma 40:19 Textual Variants

let it suffice that I say that they all come forth [ 01|; ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] or in other words [that 0| 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] their resurrection cometh to pass before the resurrection of those which die after the resurrection of Christ

While copying from 𝓞 into 𝓟, Oliver Cowdery omitted the subordinate conjunction that at the beginning of the conjoined clause that is introduced by “or in other words”. The relatedness of this conjoined clause with the preceding clause, “that they all come forth”, is improved by restoring the that and also by placing (in the standard printed text) a comma before “or in other words” instead of the 1830 semicolon. A similar example of this kind of construction, again with a repeated that after “or in other words”, is found earlier in this chapter:

Alma 40:2
- behold I say unto you that there is no resurrection or I would say in other words that this mortal does not put on immortality
  —this corruption does not put on incorruption— until after the coming of Christ

Summary: In accord with the reading of the original manuscript, restore in Alma 40:19 the that after “or in other words”; in the standard edition, the 1830 semicolon before “or in other words” should be replaced with a comma.

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

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