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Pergunta: O que testemunhas contemporâneas têm a dizer sobre o Livro de Mórmon processo de tradução?: diferenças entre revisões
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No Outono de 1827, um homem chamado Joseph Smith de Manchester, Ontario County, NY Informou que eu tinha sido visitado três vezes em um sonho, pelo espírito do Todo-Poderoso, e informou que, em certo Isso colina na cidade, era uma Bíblia de Ouro, que contém um registro antigo de natureza e origem divina. No indo para o local I encontrados enterrados a Bíblia com um enorme par de óculos: As folhas (Eu disse, tho 'Eu não tinha permissão para lhes mostrasse) eram placas de ouro, cerca de 8 polegadas de comprimento, seis de largura, e 1-8th de uma polegada de espessura, sobre a qual havia caracteres ou hieroglyphicks gravado, que, com a espetáculos que eu poderia interpretar. Um fazendeiro industrious Martin Harris, pegou o contágio, Tomou alguns dos personagens de diferentes homens aprenderam a traduzir, mas sem sucesso. Ele voltou, Set Smith para trabalhar em traduzi-lo, e tiveram-lo impresso.<ref> {{NC}} 4.dec.1830</ref> | |||
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*Escriba: Não especificada | *Escriba: Não especificada | ||
*Cortina: Não especificada | *Cortina: Não especificada | ||
* | * Instrumento: Espetáculos | ||
* | * Método: Não especificada | ||
===Hostile news account 8 December 1830=== | ===Hostile news account 8 December 1830=== | ||
Revisão das 14h24min de 28 de maio de 2015
Pergunta: O que testemunhas contemporâneas têm a dizer sobre o Livro de Mórmon processo de tradução?
Conta de notícias hostil 11 de agosto de 1829
e depois de penetrar "mãe terra" a uma curta distância, a [ouro] Bíblia foi encontrado, juntamente com um enorme par de óculos! Ele tinha sido dirigida, no entanto, para não deixar qualquer ser mortal examiná-los ", sob pena de não menos" do que a morte instantânea! Eles foram, portanto, muito bem embrulhado e excluídos do "olhar vulgar de pobres mortais perversos!" Dizia-se que as folhas da Bíblia eram placas de ouro, cerca de 8 polegadas de comprimento, seis de largura e um oitavo de uma polegada de espessura, em que foram gravados caracteres ou hyeroglyphics. Ao colocar os óculos em um chapéu, e olhando para ele, Smith poderia (ele disse que sim, pelo menos,) interpretar esses personagens.[1]
- Escriba: Não especificada
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: "Espetáculos " (ou seja, intérpretes nefitas)
- Método: Espetáculos no chapéu
Martin Harris (testemunha), parafraseado no The Gem 05 de setembro de 1829
“No outono de 1827, um homem chamado Joseph Smith de Manchester, no Condado de Ontário, disse que ele tinha sido visitado pelo espírito do Todo-Poderoso em um sonho, e informou a certeza de que em uma cidade colina em Que foi depositado no Golden Bíblia, Contendo um registro antigo de origem divina. Que os Estados-I, após a terceira visita do mesmo espírito em um sonho eu continuei para o local, terra removida, e lá encontrou a bíblia, juntamente com um grande par de óculos. Ele também foram não-fatal direcionado para deixá-los ver sob pena de morte imediata, que tem liminar firmemente adere. O tesouro consistia em uma série de placas de ouro, aproximadamente 8 polegadas de comprimento, seis de largura, e um oitavo de uma polegada de espessura, sobre a qual havia hieróglifos gravados. Ao colocar os espetáculos em um chapéu e olhando para ele, Smith interpreta os personagens para a língua Inglés.[”][2]
- Escriba: Martin Harris
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: "Espetáculos"
- Método: Espetáculos em um chapéu
Martin Harris (testemunha), parafraseou e reimpresso em New York Telescope 20 de fevereiro de 1830
...Eu continuei para o local, e encontrou a bíblia, com um enorme par de óculos .... Ele disse ter mostrado alguns desses personagens para Professor Samuel L. Mitchell, desta cidade, que não poderia traduzir-los. Martin Harris voltou, e Joseph Smith em setembro para o negócio de traduzi-las: quem, "ao colocar os óculos em um chapéu e olhando para eles, Joseph Smith disse que ele poderia interpretar esses caracteres.”[3]
- Escriba: Martin Harris
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: "Espetáculos"
- Método: Espetáculos no chapéu
Conta de notícias hostil 27 de fevereiro de 1830
O Homem inspirado Quem escreveu o "Gold Bíblia" on "placas de latão", na língua "egípcio reformado", por conta de sua brevidade, como somos informados, por meio de um desses profetas pseudo, nunca teve a metade da que experimentamos problemas em decifrar os pergaminhos de Este representante indecorosa Dark of domínios de idade Pluto. Suas cartas e comunicações são todos escritos em grego pagão, e os personagens tão finas e imperfeitos, que, apesar do grande poder de nossos espetáculos editoras, em uma instância Nós ter queimado o rabisco em desespero![4]
- Escriba: Não especificada
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: Espetáculos?
- Método: Não especificada
Conta de notícias hostil circa maio 1830
Um companheiro pelo nome de Joseph Smith, que residem na parte superior da Susquehanna concelho, tem-se, para os últimos dois anos nos é dito, empregada em dedicar como eu disse, por inspiração, uma nova bíblia. Que eu fingi que tinha sido confiada por Deus com uma bíblia de ouro que tinha sido sempre escondido do mundo. Smith iria colocar seu rosto em um chapéu em que eu tinha uma pedra branca, e fingir ler a partir dele, enquanto seu coadjutor transcritas.[5]
- Escriba: Não especificada
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: Pedra
- Método: Em um chapéu
Conta de notícias hostil 02 de junho de 1830
Ora, o restante dos atos de o mago [Walters], como sua manto caiu sobre a profeta Jo. Smith junho E como Jo. Com a liga fez um espírito que mais tarde acabou por ser um anjo, e como eu Obtido o "Gold Bíblia", Óculos, ea placa-peito Eles não serão fielmente registrado no Livro de Pukei?”[6]
- Escriba: Não especificada
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: Espetáculos e peitoral [o mágico Walters disse ter tido uma mágica pedra ", que ele levou com ele.]
- Método: Não especificada
Conta de notícias hostil 07 de julho de 1830
LIVRO DE PUKEI.-Chap. 2. Conteúdo.-.... 8 espetáculos-peitoral-Oliver, & c .... [Joseph] Escolhido arte de interpretar o livro, Mórmon que tem escrito, a saber, o ouro da Bíblia? 8. "E o que! Eu respondi o espírito do dinheiro escavadores dizendo, como Essas coisas podem ser, como Eu não sabem ler nem escrever? E disse-me "'Eu te darei um prato de peito, para te guardarem do mal, e eu te enviarei um assistente, mesmo Oliver, o pedagogo.[7]
- Escriba: Oliver Cowdery
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: Espetáculos e peitoral
- Método: Não especificada
Conta de notícias hostil 02 de agosto de 1830
os vícios e loucuras dos outros, se bem apreciado estão cheios de instrução, e nós só exigem JO SMITH'S 'mágica espetáculos , ou algum outro instrumento óptico poderoso para transformá-los em nossa própria vantagem.[8]
- Escriba: Não especificada
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: "Espetáculos " (ou seja, intérpretes nefitas)
- Método: Não especificada
Conta de notícias hostil 16 de novembro de 1830
...o que é dito a ser traduzido a partir de hieróglifos egípcios, em placas de metal, um por Smith, que estava habilitado para ler os caracteres por instrução de Anjos....[9]
- Escriba: Não especificada
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: Não especificada
- Método: Ministrado por anjos
Oliver Cowdery na conta de notícias hostil 18 de novembro de 1830
De acordo com a narrativa Dada por um desses discípulos-Oliver Cowdery A tarde-em exposição em Kirtland, ESTA fingiu Apocalipse foi escrito em placas de ouro, ou algo parecido com placas de ouro, da espessura de estanho-7 polegadas de comprimento, 6 polegadas em largura, e uma pilha Cerca de 6 polegadas de profundidade. Entre o Nada mais instruídos nos Estados Unidos foi possível ler e interpretar a-mão escrito, (exceto um, e eu poderia decifrar, mas algumas linhas corretamente,) excetuando ESTA ignorante, Joseph Smith, Jr. Para ele, dizem eles, foi dado o espírito de interpretação; mas eu era ignorante da arte da escrita, eu ter empregado ESTA Oliver Cowdery e outros para escrever, enquanto eu lia, interpretadas e traduzidas ESTA poderoso revelação.[10]
- Escriba: Oliver Cowdery
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: Não especificada
- Método: Espírito de inspiração
Conta de notícias hostil 20 de novembro de 1830
Você provavelmente já ouviu falar da Bíblia ouro tirado da terra por Joseph Smith, a caçadora de dinheiro. Isso eu traduzi do idioma egípcio reformado para Inglés, por um par de óculos de pedra (fornecida por um anjo) e um chapéu escuro diante de seus olhos.[11]
- Escriba: Não especificada
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumentos: óculos de pedra
- Método: Hat diante dos olhos
Conta de notícias hostil 04 de dezembro de 1830
No Outono de 1827, um homem chamado Joseph Smith de Manchester, Ontario County, NY Informou que eu tinha sido visitado três vezes em um sonho, pelo espírito do Todo-Poderoso, e informou que, em certo Isso colina na cidade, era uma Bíblia de Ouro, que contém um registro antigo de natureza e origem divina. No indo para o local I encontrados enterrados a Bíblia com um enorme par de óculos: As folhas (Eu disse, tho 'Eu não tinha permissão para lhes mostrasse) eram placas de ouro, cerca de 8 polegadas de comprimento, seis de largura, e 1-8th de uma polegada de espessura, sobre a qual havia caracteres ou hieroglyphicks gravado, que, com a espetáculos que eu poderia interpretar. Um fazendeiro industrious Martin Harris, pegou o contágio, Tomou alguns dos personagens de diferentes homens aprenderam a traduzir, mas sem sucesso. Ele voltou, Set Smith para trabalhar em traduzi-lo, e tiveram-lo impresso.[12]
- Escriba: Não especificada
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: Espetáculos
- Método: Não especificada
Hostile news account 8 December 1830
Some year or two since the crdulous [incredulous?] were amused with the tale that, guided by inspiration, some one had found many golden plates buried in the earth near Palmyra, Wayne county, in this state, upon which were revealed,in an unknown tongue, (an odd sort of revelation one would think) the whole duty of man. This the finder and comrade were enabled, by supernatural agency, to translate since which the book has been printed and travelling preachers have gone forth with it, to enlighten the world.[13]
- Escriba: Não especificada
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: Não especificada
- Method: Supernatural agency
Hostile news account 14 December 1830
This new Gospel they say was found in Ontario co. N.Y. and was discovered by an Angel of light, appearing in a dream to a man by the name of Smith, who, as directed, went to a certain place and dug from the earth a stone box, containing plates of gold, on which this gospel was engraved in characters unknown. The said Smith though a man so illiterate that he cannot write, was, by divine inspiration, enabled to give the true interpretation, and the man who wrote from the mouth of Smith, is one of the four mentioned above.[14]
- Escriba: Não especificada
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: Não especificada
- Method: By divine inspiration
Hostile news account 18 December 1830
At a recent period, an angel appeared to a poor ignorant man residing in, or near Palmyra, in Ontario county, in the State of New-York, and directed him to open the earth at a place designated, where he would find the new revelation engraved on plates of metal. In obedience to the celestial messenger, Smith repaired to the spot, and on opening the ground, discovered an oblong stone box, tightly closed with cement. He opened the sacred depository, and found enclosed a bundle of plates resembling gold, carefully united at one edge with three silver wires, so that they opened like a book. The plates were about seven inches long and six broad, and the whole pile was about seven inches long and six broad, and was about six inches deep; each plate about the thickness of tin. They were engraved in a character unintelligible to the learned men of the United States, to many of whom it is said they have been presented. The angel afterwards appeared to the three individuals, and showed them the plates. To Smith was given to transcribe the character which he was enabled to do by looking through two semitransparent stones, but as he was ignorant of the writing, Cowdry and others wrote as Smith interpreted. They say, that part of the plates escaped from them in a supernatural manner, and are again to be revealed when the events of time shall require them.[15]
- Escriba: Oliver Cowdery and others
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Two semitransparent stones [the Nephite interpreters?]
- Method: "by looking through two semitransparent stones"; not otherwise characterized
Hostile news account 7 February 1831
He that touched these stones appeared unto the brother of Jared, and said: “Behold I am Jesus Christ. I am the Father and the Son.” Two of these stones were sealed up with the plates, and became the spectacles of Joseph Smith, according to a prediction uttered before Abraham was born....This prophet Smith, through his stone spectacles, wrote on the plates of Nephi, in his book of Mormon, every error and almost every truth discussed in New York for the last ten years....[it] is, without exaggeration, the meanest book in the English language: but it is a translation made through stone spectacles, in a dark room, and in the hat of the prophet Smith, from the reformed Egyptian!!![16]
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Spectacles (two stones); "stone spectacles."
- Method: In a dark room, in the hat
Hostile news account 7 March1831
the surface of which was covered with hieroglyphic characters, unintelligible to Smith, the finder, who could [218] not read English. However the angel (ghost!) that discovered the plates to him, likewise informed him that he would be inspired to translate the inscriptions without looking at the plates, while an amanuensis would record his infallible reading....[17]
- Escriba: Não especificada
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Not specified
- Method: Inspired; results would be "infallible"
- Plates: not necessary to look at while translating
Martin Harris (eyewitness), paraphrased in the Palmyra Reflector 19 March 1831
Harris declares, that when he acted as amanuenses, and wrote the translation, as Smith dictated, such was his fear of the Divine displeasure, that a screen (sheet) was suspended between the prophet and himself.... [18]
- Escriba: Martin Harris
- Curtain: Present
- Instrumento: Não especificada
- Method: Not specified
Oliver Cowdery (eyewitness), paraphrased in hostile press 9 April 1831
During the trial it was shown that the Book of Mormon was brought to light by the same magic power by which he pretended to tell fortunes, discover hidden treasures, &c. Oliver Cowdry, one of the three witnesses to the book, testified under oath, that said Smith found with the plates, from which he translated his book, two transparent stones, resembling glass, set in silver bows. That by looking through these, he was able to read in English, the formed Egyptian characters, which were engraved on the plates.
So much for the gift and power of God. by which Smith says he translate his book. Two transparent stones, undoubtedly of the same properties, and the gift of the same spirit as the one in which he looked to find his neighbor’s goods.[19]
- Scribe: Oliver Cowdery
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Two transparent stones with plates; distinguished from the seer stone or "peep" stone.
- Method: Looking through the stones
Hostile press account circa May 1831
He [Joseph] has 10 year’s translating to do; he looks in a small stone he has, and there reads the will of the Lord and writes it for the good of his fellow men.[20]
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: A stone; not clear if this is translation of Book of Mormon or other revelation
- Method: Not specified
Ezra Booth (non-eyewitness) 27 Oct 1831
- So also in translating.—The subject stands before his eyes in print, but it matters not whether his eyes are open or shut; he can see as well one way as the other....
- These treasures were discovered several years since, by means of the dark glass, the same with which Smith says he translated most of the Book of Mormon.[21]
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: "dark glass" (? "peep stone" variant)
- Method: Eyes open or closed
Hostile news account 18 November 1831
- The preacher said he [Joseph] found in the same place two stones, with which he was enabled by placing them over his eyes and putting his head in a dark corner, to decypher the hieroglyphics on the plates![22]
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Two stones (Nephite interpreters)
- Method: Place over eyes, in the dark
Nancy Towle - visiting critic 1832
- He accordingly went; and was directed by the angel to a certain spot of ground, where was deposited a “Box”— [138] and in that box contained “Plates,” which resembled gold; also, a pair of “interpreters,” (as he called them,) that resembled spectacles; by looking into which, he could read a writing engraven upon the plates, though to himself, in a tongue unknown.[23]
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Pair of interpreters/spectacles
- Method: Able to read the writing engraven on plates
News report 7 Mar 1832
Smith with divine aid, was able to translate the plates...[24]
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Not specified
- Method: Divine aid
News report of LDS missionary [Lyman Johnson and Arson (Orson?) Pratt] teachings 14 April 1832
God by his goodness inspired Smith himself to translate the whole.—Smith, however, not being qualified to write, employed an amanuensis, who wrote for him....[25]
- Scribe: Mentioned, but no individual
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: Não especificada
- Method: Divine inspiration
Hostile news report 10 October 1832
A slight excavation of the earth, enabled him to arrive at this new revelation, written in mysterious characters, upon gold plates. A pair of spectacles, of strange and peculiar construction were found with the plates, to aid the optics of the prophet....[26]
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Spectacles
- Method: Divine inspiration
Hostile book report 1833
he found a book with golden clasps and cover, and a pair of elegantly mounted spectacles, somewhat old-fashioned to be sure, but astonishing magnifiers, and possessing qualities which it might puzzle Sir David Brewster to explain on optical principles.
Smith had some difficulty in undoing the clasps of this precious volume, but on opening it, though his eyes were good, it appeared to contain nothing but blank paper. It then occurred to him to fit on his spectacles, when, lo! the whole volume was filled with certain figures and pothooks to him unintelligible. Delighted with his good fortune, Smith trudged home with the volume in his pocket and the spectacles on his nose, happy as bibliomaniac who has been lucky enough to purchase some rare Editio Princeps [first edition] “dog cheap” from the ignorant proprietor of an obscure book-stall. On reaching his own house, his first care was to secure his miraculous treasures from profane observation; his second, to copy out a page or two of the characters, and look about for an interpreter. His search was long fruitless, but, at length, he hit on precisely the two individuals who were qualified conjointly for the office. One of these gentlemen possessed the faculty of reading the hieroglyphics, and the other of interpreting....[27]
- Scribe: Not specified—note that Joseph is not even said to be the translator
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Spectacles
- Method: "Translation" by others
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Spectacles/Interpreters—"perhaps" the teraphim or urim and thummim [first association of the Nephite stones with the urim and thummim?]
- Method: By the gift and power of God
Joseph Smith (eyewitness) in American Revivalist and Rochester Observer - 2 Feb 1833
having been found through the ministration of an holy Angel, translated into our own language by the gift and power of God....[28]
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: Não especificada
- Method: By the gift and power of God
Hostile press report 7 March 1833
the golden plates were said to be engraved in a language that none but Smith could read—and that an angel gave him a pair of spectacles which
he put in a hat and thus read and translated, while one of the witnesses wrote it down from his mouth....[29]
- Scribe: Multiple; later identifies "Oliver Powdery" [sic] as "the scribe."
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Spectacles
- Method: In the hat
Hostile press report May 1833
They have a revelation of their own, which, they affirm, was given to the people of this continent, (the Indians,) on plates, and deposited in the earth, and kept concealed in the earth of the Lord, till the fulfilment of its time, which has now been accomplished: and to prove that Joseph Smith is that wonderful prophet, to whom these marvellous plates and their profound mysteries [263] should be revealed, they recite the 29th chapter of Isaiah, saying that the prophet Smith is that unlearned man, to whom the book was given to read, and he said I cannot, for I am not learned! But this difficulty was soon removed by the spirit which came upon him, and blest him with the gift of tongues. The book then was clearly opened to his understanding, and he translated it to one of the witnesses, who wrote it in our lauguage. [check spelling][30]
- Scribe: "one of the witnesses"
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrumento: Não especificada
- Method: "spirit...blest him with the gift of tongues"
Eber D. Howe (non-eyewitness), paraphrasing Martin Harris (eyewitness) in Mormonism Unvailed
[Martin Harris] says he wrote a considerable part of the book, as Smith dictated, and at one time the presence of the Lord was so great, that a screen was hung up between him and the Prophet; at other times the Prophet would sit in a different room, or up stairs, while the Lord was communicating to him the contents of the plates. He does not pretend that he ever saw the wonderful plates but once, although he and Smith were engaged for months in deciphering their contents.[31]:14 [32]
- Scribe: Martin Harris
- Curtain: present
- Instrumento: Não especificada
- Method: not specified
- Locations: Different room; Stairs
- Plates: Not present
Charles Anthon (non-eyewitness), in Mormonism Unvailed
This young man was placed behind a curtain, in the garret of a farm house, and, being thus concealed from view, put on the spectacles occasionally, or rather, looked through one of the glasses, decyphered the characters in the book, and, having committed some of them to paper, handed copies from behind the curtain, to those who stood on the outside. Not a word, however, was said about the plates having been decyphered "by the gift of God:' Every thing, in this way, was effected by the large pair of spectacles.[31]:270 [33]
- Scribe: Martin Harris
- Curtain: present
- Instrument: Nephite interpreters ("spectacles"; "large pair of spectacles")
- Method: "looked through one of the glasses"
Isaac Hale (eyewitness), Mormonism Unvailed
I told them, that I considered the whole of it a delusion, and advised them to abandon it. The manner in which he pretended to read and interpret, was the same as when he looked for the money-diggers, with the stone in his hat, and his hat over his face, while the Book of Plates were at the same time hid in the woods![31]:265
- Scribe: Not identified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: stone
- Method: placed stone in hat
Charles Anthon paraphrasing Martin Harris (eyewitness), Mormonism Unvailed
A “gold book,” consisting of a number of plates of gold, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of “gold spectacles” ! These spectacles were so large, that, if a person attempted to look through them, his two eyes would have to be turned towards one of the glasses merely, the spectacles in question being altogether too large for the breadth of the human face. Whoever examined the plates through the spectacles, was enabled not only to read them, but fully to understand their meaning. All this knowledge, however, was confined at that time to a young man, who had the trunk containing the book and spectacles in his sole possession. This young man was placed behind a curtain, in the garret of a farm [270] house, and, being thus concealed from view, put on the spectacles occasionally, or rather, looked through one of the glasses, decyphered the characters in the book, and, having committed some of them to paper, handed copies from behind the curtain, to those who stood on the outside. Not a word, however, was said about the plates having been decyphered “by the gift of God.” Every thing, in this way, was effected by the large pair of spectacles.[31]:269 [34]
- Scribe: Joseph Smith
- Curtain: Present
- Instrument: Spectacles
- Method: Looking through spectacles, not a divine process
[Note that this comment would have derived from prior to the formal translation process, and likely reflects only Joseph's act of copying the characters so they could be taken to Harris accompanied by his interpretation.]
Mormonism Unvailed - 1834
They at the same time gave out that, along with the plates, was found a huge pair of silver spectacles, altogether too large for the present race of men, but which were to be used, nevertheless, in translating the plates. [17] The translation finally commenced. They were found to contain a language not now known upon the earth, which they termed “reformed Egyptian characters.” The plates, therefore, which had been so much talked of, were found to be of no manner of use. After all, the Lord showed and communicated to him every word and letter of the Book. Instead of looking at the characters inscribed upon the plates, the prophet was obliged to resort to the old “peep stone,” which he formerly used in money-digging. This he placed in a hat, or box, into which he also thrust his face. Through the stone he could then discover a single word at a time, which he repeated aloud to his amanuensis, who committed it to paper, when another word would immediately appear, and thus the performance continued to the end of the book.[31]:16-17
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Seer stone
- Method: Placed in hat or box
- Plates: Not looked at directly
Another account they give of the transaction, is, that it was performed with the big spectacles before mentioned, and which were in fact, the identical Urim and Thumim mentioned in Exodus 28–30, and were brought away from Jerusalem by the heroes of the book, handed down from one generation to another, and finally buried up in Ontario county, some fifteen centuries since, to enable Smith to translate the plates without looking at them ![31]:17
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Spectacles
- Method: Not specified
But Don Quixote told his squire Sancho, that great fortune was often very near when we least expected it ; thus it was with Smith in diging after hidden treasures—the famous brass plates, the gold spectacles and the interpreting stone were found, perhaps, when he least expected it[31]:54
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Spectacles and stone
- Method: Not specified
We are informed that Smith used a stone in a hat, for the purpose of translating the plates. The spectacles and plates were found together, but were taken from him and hid up again before he had translated one word, and he has never seen them since—this is Smith’s own story. Let us ask, what use have the plates been or the spectacles, so long as they have in no sense been used ? or what does the testimony of Martin Harris, Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer amount to?
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Stone; "spectacles" not used at all
- Method: Stone in hat
- Plates: Not present
Hostile news account Jan 1834
But, by the special power of the Spirit, Smith was enabled to translate them.[35]
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Not specified
- Method: "Special power of the Spirit"
- Plates: Not specified
Hostile news account 4 June 1834
In the year 1828, one Joseph Smith, an illiterate young man, unable to read his own name, of Palmyra, Wayne County, New York, was reported to have found several golden plates, together with a pair of spectacles, relics of high antiquity. The spectacles were designed to aid mental vision, under rather peculiar circumstances. They were to be adjusted, and the visage thrust into a close hat. This done Smith could interpret the sacred mysteries of the plates, in which lay, by the hypothesis, in the top of the hat![36]
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Spectacles
- Method: Spectacles in the hat
- Plates: Not specified
Oliver Cowdery (eyewitness) 7 September 1834
These were days never to be forgotten—to sit under the sound of a voice dictated by the inspiration of heaven, awakened the utmost gratitude of this bosom! Day after day I continued, uninterrupted, to write from his mouth, as he translated, with the Urim and Thummim, or, as the Nephites whould have said, “Interpreters,” the history, or record, called “The book of Mormon.”[37]
- Scribe: Not specified
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Urim and thummim ("interpreters")
- Method: Not specified
- Plates: Not specified
Hostile press account - 1834/35
This famous book, which its misguided followers regard as a second Bible, or more properly as the Mohammedans do the Koran, is said to be a translation from certain brass plates, found by one Joseph Smith, in the town of Palmyra, (N. Y.) in 1826. They were enclosed in a box, which had to all appearance been used for common sized window glass. Smith pretended to interpret them, with a stone in his hat, and this hat over his face, while one Martin Harris was employed to write down the contents at his dictation.[38]
- Scribe: Martin Harris (later mentions Cowdery)
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Stone
- Method: Stone in the hat
- Plates: Presence not specified; plates' box implied to be of modern origin; plates said to be "brass"—this source is clearly garbling at least some of the story.
W.W. Phelps to Oliver Cowdery - Feb 1835
The first one is where you sat day after day and wrote the history of the second race that inhabited this continent, as the words were repeated to you by the Lord’s prophet, through the aid of the “Urim and Thumim,” “Nephite Interpreters,” or Divine Spectacles. I mean when you wrote the book of Mormon, containing the fulness of the gospel to the world, and the covenant to gather Israel, for the last time, as well as the history of the Indians, who, till then, had neither origin among men, not records amid the light and knowledge of the great 19th century.[39]
- Scribe: Oliver Cowdery
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Interpreters/Spectacles/Urim and Thummim
- Method: Not specified
- Plates: Not specified
Hostile press account March 1835
Smith pretended that he had found some golden or brass plates, like the leaves of a book, hid in a box in the earth, to which he was directed by an Angel, in 1827,—that the writing on them was in the “Reformed Egyptian language,”—that he was inspired to interpret the writing, or engraving, by putting a plate in his hat, putting two smooth flat stones, which he found in the box, in the hat, and putting his face therein—that he could not write, but as he translated, one Oliver Cowdry wrote it down.[40]
- Scribe: Oliver Cowdery
- Cortina: Não especificada
- Instrument: Two stones found with plates (interpreters?)
- Method: Stones in the hat with a plate
- Plates: In the hat
Notas
- ↑ “Golden Bible,” Rochester Advertiser and Daily Telegraph (New York) (31 August 1829). Reprinted from Palmyra Freeman, 11 August 1829. off-site
- ↑ "Golden Bible," Rochester (NY) Gem 1 (5 September 1829): 70; cited in Dan Vogel (editor), Early Mormon Documents (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 1996–2003), 5 vols, 2:272.
- ↑ C. C. Blatchley, “Caution Against the Golden Bible,” New-York Telescope 6, no. 38 (20 February 1830): 150. off-site
- ↑ “Diabolical,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) new series, no. 8 (27 February 1830): xxx. off-site
- ↑ Cincinnati Advertiser and Ohio Phoenix (2 June 1830). Reprinted from Wayne County Inquirer, Pennsylvania, circa May 1830. off-site
- ↑ “The Book of Pukei.—Chap. I,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 3d series, no. 5 (12 June 1830): 36–37.
- ↑ “The Book of Pukei.—Chap. 2,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 3d series, no. 8 (7 July 1830): 60.
- ↑ “Every thing in this world . . .,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 3d series, no. 14 (28 August 1830): 108–9.
- ↑ “The Golden Bible,” Painesville Telegraph (Ohio) (16 November 1830).
- ↑ A.S., “The Golden Bible, or, Campbellism Improved,” Observer and Telegraph (Hudson, Ohio) (18 November 1830).
- ↑ [citation needed] 20.nov.1830
- ↑ [citation needed] 4.dec.1830
- ↑ 8.dec.1830 [citation needed]
- ↑ [citation needed] 14.dec.1830
- ↑ “Delusion,” The Jesuit or Catholic Sentinel (Boston, Massachusetts) (18 December 1830): 125. Reprinted from Geauga Gazette (Ohio) circa November 1830.
- ↑ Alexander Campbell, Delusions (Boston: Benjamine H. Greene, 1832), p. 89, 92, 94 of original; originally published in Millennial Harbinger 2 (7 February 1831): 85–96. off-site O. Cowdery reply #1 #2 Full title
- ↑ David S. Burnett, “Something New.—The Golden Bible,” Evangelical Inquirer (Dayton, Ohio) 1, no. 10 (7 March 1831): 217–19.
- ↑ “Gold Bible, No. 6,” The Reflector 2, no. 16 (Palmyra, New York) 19 March 1831, xxx. off-site
- ↑ A.W.B., “Mormonites,” Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate (Utica, New York) 2, no. 15 (9 April 1831): 120.
- ↑ CriticalWork: Batista Chronicle e Literária Register: setembro 1831
- ↑ “Mormonism—No. III,” Ezra Booth to Rev. I. Eddy, 24 October 1831 Ohio Star (Ravenna, Ohio) (27 October 1831). off-site
- ↑ “The Mormonites,” Christian Intelligencer and Eastern Chronicle (Gardiner, Maine) (18 November 1831): 184. Reprinted from Illinois Patriot (Jacksonville, Illinois) (16 September 1831).
- ↑ Nancy Towle, Vicissitudes Illustrated in the Experience of Nancy Towle in Europe and America(Charleston: For the Authoress, 1832), 137–47.
- ↑ “Mormonism,” Fredonia Censor (New York) (7 March 1832). Reprinted from the Franklin Democrat (Pennsylvania) circa March 1832. off-site
- ↑ “The Orators of Mormon,” Catholic Telegraph (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1 (14 April 1832): 204–5. Reprinted from Mercer Press (Pennsylvania), circa April 1832. off-site
- ↑ “Mormonism,” Boston Recorder (Boston, Massachusetts) 17, no. 41 (10 October 1832). Reprinted from Lockport Balance (New York), circa September 1832. off-site
- ↑ Thomas Hamilton, Men and Manners in America (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833), 364–65.
- ↑ [Communication from Joseph Smith, Jr.,] “Mormonism,” The American Revivalist and Rochester Observer (Rochester, New York) 7, no. 6 (2 February 1833). off-site]
Only the last two paragraphs of Joseph’s letter to the newspaper were printed. The entire letter appeared eleven years later in the November 15, 1844 issue of the Times and Seasons. - ↑ David Marks, [Untitled Remarks on Mormonism], Morning Star (Limerick, Maine) 7, no. 45 (7 March 1833): 177.
- ↑ “Mormonites,” Gospel Luminary 6, no. 8 (May 1833): 263–65.
- ↑ 31,0 31,1 31,2 31,3 31,4 31,5 31,6 Eber D. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed (Painesville, OH, 1834), {{{pages}}}. (Affidavits examined)
- ↑ Based on reports by Doctor Philastus Hurlbut.
- ↑ Here, Howe reprints a letter, dated February 17, 1834, written by Charles Anthon.
- ↑ Statement made by Isaac Hale, Joseph Smith's father-in-law.
- ↑ Jason Whitman, “The Book of Mormon,” The Unitarian (Boston) 1 (January 1834): 39.
- ↑ “Mormonism,” Protestant Sentinel (Schenectady, New York) n.s. 5, no. 1 (4 June 1834): 4–5. Reprinted from New England Review, circa May 1834.
- ↑ "Oliver Cowdery to W.W. Phelps, 7 September 1834," Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate 1 no. 1 (October 1834), 13–16.
- ↑ J. Newton Brown, “Mormonites,” Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (Boston: Shattuck & Company, 1835), xxx. Reprinted from Cross and Baptist Journal, Fall 1834. off-site
- ↑ W. W. Phelps to Oliver Cowdery, Christmas 1834, "Letter No. 4," Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate 1 no. 5 (February 1835), 65-67.
- ↑ “Mormonism,” New York Weekly Messenger and Young Men’s Advocate (29 April 1835). Reprinted from The Pioneer (Rock Springs, Illinois), March 1835. off-site