Latin in the Book of Mormon
Alma 39:3; “And this is not all, my son. Thou didst do that which was grievous unto me; for thou didst forsake the ministry, and did go over into the land of Siron among the borders of the Lamanites, after the harlot Isabel.”
Jeremiah 10:11; “Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.”
It may seem odd to use this verse from Jeremiah, but it stands as a reminder of what will happen to the Book of Mormon and the false prophet who authored it.
Joseph Smith claimed that neither Greek nor Latin was found upon the golden or brass plates, yet Isabel is a Latin term coined in the late middle ages.
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