Alma 60:17 Textual Variants

and this because of the great wickedness of those who [are 1ABCDEFGIJLMNOPQRST|were HK] seeking for power and authority

The typesetter for the 1874 RLDS edition accidentally set are as were. Clearly, Moroni is referring to the current situation, as he does in the following verse when he refers to the possibility that Parhoron himself may be seeking power:

Alma 60:18
- for we know not but what ye yourselves are a seeking for authority we know not but what ye are also traitors to your country

The present-tense are in verse 17 was restored to the RLDS text in 1908. The critical text will, of course, maintain the present-tense verb forms throughout the larger passage.

Summary: Retain in Alma 60:17 the original present-tense are in “those who are seeking for power and authority”.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 5

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