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O relato de Whitmer é contrário de várias maneiras com o relato de Hiram Page. Whitmer cita errado a cidade de destino no Canadá (ele diz Toronto, e outros relatos, e a própria revelação, dizem Kingston) e ele não identificou corretamente todos os participantes (ele identificou Hiram Page e Oliver Cowdery, enquanto Page citou Joseph Knight e Josiah Stowell). Note-se que o texto da própria revelação finalmente esclarece a questão de para quem exatamente a revelação fora direcionada.
... que me apraz que Oliver Cowdery, Joseph Knight, Hiram Page & Josias Stowel deve fazer o meu trabalho nesta coisa ...
Page also makes no mention or even a hint at disappointment in Joseph Smith, nor is there an accusation that the trip was based upon a "false prophecy," so naturally no subsequent "revelation" is noted by Page explaining the mission’s failure.
In Whitmer’s 1887 account we learn for the first time of the supposed post-mission revelation where Joseph Smith is told that some revelations are from God, some from devils, some from men. This account is in all likelihood a fabrication. Unlike his consistent, life-long statements concerning the witness of the Gold Plates, this account, which is probably a second-hand retelling of events 57 years after their occurrence, suddenly appears and is wrong on several of the documentable facts, as well as being inconsistent with the first-hand testimony of Hiram Page, given 40 years earlier than Whitmer and by comparison much closer to the actual event.
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