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==''Improvement Era'' (1970): "This wording in the present Pearl of Great Price is modified from the first printing, in which the messenger was identified as 'Nephi'"==
Richard Lloyd Anderson, ''Improvement Era'' (September 1970):
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"He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni."  This wording in the present Pearl of Great Price is modified from the first printing, in which the messenger was identified as "Nephi," a fact that has generated its share of superficial comment. A textual critic or a court of law reserves the right to use common sense in the face of obvious documentary errors. The "Nephi" reading contradicts all that the Prophet published on the subject during his lifetime. In 1835 Joseph Smith identified the messenger in official scripture: "Moroni, whom I have sent unto you to reveal the Book of Mormon…. ([D&C 50.2 (1835 edition), D&C 27:5 (present edition)]. That year Oliver Cowdery also named this individual in the Messenger and Advocate: "the angel Moroni, whose words I have been rehearsing…. Communicated the knowledge of the record of the Nephites…." [''Messenger and Advocate'', 1:112 (April 1835).] Without exhausting the evidence, nothing could be clearer than Joseph Smith's statement printed in the same year that the History began to be dictated: "Moroni, the person who deposited the plates, from whence the Book of Mormon was translated, in a hill in Manchester, Ontario County, New York, being dead, and raised again therefrom, appeared unto me, and told me where they were; and gave me directions how to obtain them" [''Elder's Journal'' 1:42–43 (July 1838), cit. Joseph Smith, ''History of the Church'' 3:28]. <ref>Richard Lloyd Anderson, [http://archive.org/stream/improvementera7309unse#page/n7/mode/2up "Confirming Records of Moroni's Coming,"] ''The Improvement Era'' 73:9 (September 1970): 4-8.</ref>
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