The apologetic bee in your bonnet is based on a refusal to admit that words change meaning through time The linguistic argument about the word exhorter could not have been made even a hundred years ago because too many people then would have understood its context Suppose I should jump on the phrase author and proprietor which Joseph Smith used to get his copyright and insist that only the first definition of the word author in a modern dictionary original writer of a literary work could be cited in any article about the BoM declaring that any other definition would mislead the reader Q E D Smith was a fraud by his own admission I appreciate the cleverness of some Mormon apologetics but this argument about the word exhorter is please pardon my bluntness ignorant