Alma 37:26 Textual Variants

Here in the original manuscript, Oliver Cowdery initially wrote “the word hath been fulfilled”. Virtually immediately, Oliver supralinearly inserted of God (there is no change in the level of ink flow for the correction). Here of God is expected, especially since Alma is referring to what he just said earlier in verses 24–25 in reference to the Jaredites; the conceptual parallelism between the two passages is clearly intended:

• Alma 37:24–25
  • these directors were prepared
    (1) that the word of God might be fulfilled which he spake saying
    (2) I will bring forth out of darkness unto light all their secret works and their abominations
    (3) and except they repent I will destroy them from off the face of the earth
    (4) and I will bring to light all their secrets and abominations unto every nation which shall hereafter possess the land
• Alma 37:26
  • (3 ) we see that they did not repent / therefore they have been destroyed
    (1 ) and thus far the word of God hath been fulfilled
    (2 ) yea their secret abominations have been brought out of darkness
    (4 ) and made known unto us

The critical text will therefore maintain in Alma 37:26 the corrected reading in 𝓞, “the word of God”.