Sunday, March 6, 2022

Joseph Smith Departing from JST Malachi

In Old Testament Manuscript 2:119, we read:


Malachi Correct


Finished on the 2d day of July 1833



Joseph Smith would later depart from his assessment of the "correct" nature of the KJV text of Malachi. In a discourse from January 21, 1844, we read the following in Wilford Woodruff's account thereof:

 

The Bible says “I will send you Elijah before the great & dredful day of the Lord come that he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children & the hearts of the children to their fathers lest I come & smite the whole earth with a curse,” Now the word turn here should be translated -[bind or seal] . . .