[Elsie]

Isn’t it fascinating how all of the Mormon revelations collected by Joseph Smith arrived in Early Modern English instead of the everyday American English of the 1830s? Why would the Angel Moroni or the stone spectacles Joseph Smith used result in English of 1611 instead of American English as spoken 1830?

Well...

... the English Revised Version of 1881-1885 hadn't come into existence yet.

What ELSE would a fella plagiarize?

[Pelham]

” Well...... the English Revised Version of 1881-1885 hadn’t come into existence yet. What ELSE would a fella plagiarize?”

There certainly was some sort of dilemma for Moroni and the Stone Spectacles.

Even with their help when Joseph Smith was translating what he called Reformed Egyptian it just wouldn’t come out in 1830s American vernacular.

Instead, every time, the writing came out sounding just like Joseph Smith had grown up in the England of the late 1500s and was translating directly from the Greek Textus Receptus assembled by Erasmus of Rotterdam.

Go figure. The coincidence must prove the divine provenance of the Mormon scriptures. Or not.