Defense of the Faith and the Saints (Volume 1 of 2)Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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Defense of the Faith and the Saints (Volume 1 of 2)
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saint churches
"I have always retained in remembrance their captivity, yea, and ye
also had ought to retain in remembrance, as I have their captivity;
* * * for ye had ought to know as I do know, that inasmuch as ye
shall keep the commandments of God ye shall prosper in the land;
and ye had ought to know also that inasmuch as ye shall not keep
the commandments of God, ye shall be cut off from his presence."
(Page 326.)
"Behold I say unto you, that it is him that surely shall come to
take away the sins of the world." (Page 333.)
"My son, do not risk one more offense against your God* * * which
ye hath hitherto risked to commit sin; * * * for that which ye doth
send out shall return unto you again." (Page 337.)
"And thus ended the record of Alma, which was wrote upon the plates
of Nephi." (Page 347.)
"And this shall be your language in them days: But behold your days
of probation is past."
Are these flagrant errors in grammar chargeable to the Lord? To say
so is to invite ridicule. The thoughts, the doctrines, are well
enough; but the awkward, ungrammatical expression of the thoughts is,
doubtless, the result of the translator's imperfect knowledge of the
English language,[A] for which lack of knowledge he is not one whit
blameable, since his lack of education was due entirely to his want of
opportunity for acquiring learning. And, moreover, the errors are just
such errors as one circumstanced as the translator was, would make.
Again, I say for the translation, what Moroni says for the original
Nephite record: "If there be errors, they are the errors of man," not
God's errors. Let us rid ourselves of the reproach of charging error,
even though it be of forms of expression, unto God, in whom and in
whose ways there are no errors at all.
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