Mormon 8:38–39 Textual Variants

One wonders with respect to the larger context how to parse the because-phrase (“because of the praise of the world”). It doesn’t seem to belong at the end of the previous question per se, nor does it seem to belong to the following question. It seems to be stranded, and perhaps for that reason the 1920 LDS edition replaced the 1830 comma preceding the phrase with a dash. Also note that some of the editions from 1837 to 1892 replaced the 1830 question mark at the end of the phrase with a period, as if the purpose of the because-phrase is to parenthetically suggest a possible answer, rhetorically asked, for all the surrounding rhetorical questions:

• Mormon 8:38–40 (question marks added)
  •   why have ye polluted the holy church of God?
      why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ?
      why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness
      than that misery which never dies?
    → because of the praise of the world?
      why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life
      and yet suffer the hungry and the needy and the naked and the sick
      and the afflicted to pass by you and notice them not?
      yea why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain
      and cause that widows should mourn before the Lord
      and also orphans to mourn before the Lord
      and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands
      to cry unto the Lord from the ground for vengeance upon your heads?

In any case, the use of the because- phrase is unusual and should probably be separated off in some way from the surrounding rhetorical questions, with either commas or dashes.