Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-19

the two in general or In detail There
seems to be no name or incident cem-
mon TO the two. Some other
explanation Of the origin ~ the Book Of
Mormon must hs found Tho twlth Oh
President f'airChlds statement can be
verified by any one WHO WIN compare
the pHo,
NEPHt AND SHAKEsPEARE.
The Unknown has certainly plunged
into the foe respecting his alleged cone
neluou between Nephi and Shake
speuc. ANA by some sort ot mental
conlottion, utterly inoNplicablc, has ar
rived al the conclusion that we must
euppose that Nguhi had a copy of our
English Bible ass well as the Jewish
scriptures, and also "a copy OF Shakes
peare, I'm order 10 account for the pas
sage IN the Book Of Mormon which ne
alleges is a quotation from the English
poet ] must come 10 the rescue of the
Unknown M this matter. | begin 10 feel
some degree Of commiserutIon for him
IN his mental struggle To comprehend
even this very simple matter Attend,
then; Lehi lived I'm Judea In the sew
cnth ana sixth century. b. &. He was
acquainted with the Hebrew scriptures,
Including the book Of job, and when he
departed from Jerusalem for the wost-
crn world his colony took with them
those same Scriptures Through them
he became familiar IN the Hebrew with
Job's-"Let me alone. that ] may take
comfort little before / 80 whence |
shall not return Also Job's-"Whcn
few years are come, then / shall go
The way whence | shall not return
When Lehi's own hour Of departure
hence had come, Impressed with this
solemn thought of Jobs, he gave eX-
preston to II In Hebrew The saying
was recorded by his son Npphl In the
Egyptian characters employed by him
IN making his record Observe that we
have traced these ideas Of the land
whence | shall not return into the Ne.
phlte records without the aid OF the
English Bible or Shakespeare, Whom
Joseph Smith came to this thought IN
Nephi the thought, mark you he
translated II into the English, and be-
ing familiar with the book Of Job IN
English, his translation followed some
what the phrascOlogy Of job I'm our
English version Shakespeare nowhere
appears I'm an this, and II he aid. II
Joseph Smith had expressed this old
Hebrew and Nephite thought I'm Shakes
lcare's exact phraseology instead Of
that Of our English version OF job, II
Noulu nave Dec0 10 NullQ OnltttlOn 10
the Book If Mormon, for Shakespeare
obtained his thought, and even para
phrased the very language Of job In
the English Bible. An, but the Tn
known points out that Shakespeare
died In 1916, ana the English version
of the Bible was only published In 1911
only five years before the poets DEATH
Are We to infer from this that M"
thinks Shakespeare had no English BIZ
bic from which to paraphrase this pas
sage? If so-and | can see nothing
else In his reference to these dates
then would inform the gentleman that
as there were brave men before Aga
memnon. so were there English Bibles
before the 1911 edition; Wycllnes Eng
lish Bible, l3S0-l3S4; Tyudales English
translation, $500 Miles Coverdale's
English translation, 1885, dedicated TO
Henry VIII, and for a time issued un-
der the royal sanction. From any OF
these versions Shakespeare could have
paraphrased Jobs words.