Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-05

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ABOVE, Nephi makes several quota
ions from the writings OF Paul in the
XII or Romans, about the olive tree
and the branches broken off. with 9th.
ers grated in ETC.. the gentleman IL
acquainted with the prophets OF Israel.
ought TO know that this simile Is not
original with Paul; but that the an
clent prophets used It I'm Illustration OF
israel and the judgments that should
come upon the people. Moreover I'm |
ADDITION to our books OF Jewish Scrip
lures the Nephites had some Of the
writings OF the other prophets Of Israel, !
nolaply the book of Xenos, in which |
was given at great length this smile of |
the tame olive tree and the branches |
being broken Off and others grated in, /
etc" from which hook unquestionably |
Nephi obtaiped his ideas.
QUOTATION FROM PETER.
The Unknowns charges that Nephi |
quoted from the words OF Peter, which |
| give here, followed by the passage |
from Nephi, Peter Whom the heav- |
en- must receive until the time of resti- !
luton OF all things. which God hath |
spoken by the mouth OF all His holy |
phophets since the world began" Me- |
phi. Behold, 1t Is wisdom in God that |
we should obtain these records, that we
may preserve unto our children the lam |
Suage OF our fathers; and also that we
may preserve unto them the words
which have been spoken by the mouth
OF all the holy prophets, which have
been delivered unto them by the spirit
and power of God since the world be-
gan, even down unto this present time"
The omissions that are made in order
| TO bring words together TO establish the
"a "a Ism G-h la
what straits the Unknown is driven to
make out his case.
one other thing the Unknown seems
| to have overlooked. viz, that the Book
| or Mormon is a translation OF the ideas
| and prophecies of men deriving their
| knowledge concerning the Messiah and
| things associated with His life either
| from the old Jewish Scriptures, which
were in their possession, or from the
| revelation Of God direct to them; and
| that the translator. Joseph Smith, being
| more or less familiar with New Testa-
| ment and Old Testament expressions.
in making the translation. at times
used Bible phraseology in representing
| Ideas akin to those found in Jewish
Scriptures. See also my remarks UNI
der heading No. 3. where this defense
is more fully stated.
sHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATION.
2. The Unknown fairly revels in the
thought that he has Leh quoting
| Shakespeare many generations before
our great English poet was born and
INDUCES I'm the sarcasms which Camp
bell and more than score Of anti
| Mormon writer's have INDUCED in
who have mimicked his phrase0logy.
| Now the fact is there are two passages
in Job which could easily have supplied
both Shakespeare and Lehi with the
idea OF that country from whose bourn
no traveller returns" That this may
appear | give the passages from
Shakespeare job and Lehi. 1t should
be remembered always that the Ne
phites had the Jewish scriptures with
them, including the book of Job; hence
Lehl could have obtained his idea from
the same source whence Shakespeare
obtained his
Shakespeare THAT undiscovered
country from whose bourn no traveller
returns"
job; Let me alone that may take
comfort little before | go whence /
shall not return, even to the land Of
darkness and the shadow Of death"
| dob, 1920, 2l). when a few years
22). are come. then | shall go the way
whence ] shall not return dob, l6;
Leh Hear the words Of parent
whose limbs We must soon lay down In
the cold and silent grave from whence
no traveller can return"
| IL Will be observed that the passage
from the Book OF Mormon follows Job
more closely than ii does Shakespeare
both in thought and dicton; and this
J for the reason doubtless that Lehi had
been impressed with Jobs idea of going
to the land whence he would not return,
and Joseph Smith being familiar with
Job, and very likely not familiar with
Shakespeare, when he came TO Lehi's
thought, expressed It nearly in Jobs
phraseclogy
FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT,
3-The Unknown asks me again how
1t is that Nephi living in the sixth CEN
fury b. c., can quote numerous pas
sages. about 1900 from the New Tes-
lament alone, and whole chapters from
our English version of the Bible, which
; did not come into existence for more
than 1000 years after he wrote When
the Unknown says that there are 300
quotations from the New Testament
alone In the writings Of Nephi, If he
meant that, he simply makes a colossal
Misrepresentation for there is no such
number of passages in Nephl from the
New Testament alone, nor In fact In
the whole Book Of Mormon. But as
think he must have meant this asser-
ton 20 apply TO the whole Book of Mora
: mon, I viii take no advantage of his
misstatement as to combining that num-
Der to Nephi, but viii meet the larger
question as to all these passages In the
Book OF Mormon which parallel pas
sages in both the Old and New Tesla
ment. Because Joseph Smith translated
, the Book of Mormon by means of the