Alma 61:7 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and they have come unto us insomuch that those which have [rose >js risen 1|rose A|risen BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] up in rebellion against us are set at defiance

Here we have another example of the simple past-tense form serving as the past-participial form, namely, rose instead of the standard risen. This is the only example of rose being used as a past participle in the text. All the other instances of the past participle for the verb rise take the standard risen; five refer to Christ rising from the dead, but there are two more that refer to rising up in rebellion, and they are found earlier in this chapter:

The critical text will restore in Alma 61:7 the single instance of past-participial rose. Such nonstandard usage is quite common in the original text (see the example of had came under 1 Nephi 5:1, 4 as well as the general discussion under past participle in volume 3).

Summary: Restore in Alma 61:7 the original past-participial form rose (“those which have rose up in rebellion against us”), the reading of the earliest extant text.

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

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