Isaiah 12 has close phraseological links with the preceding chapters, with chapters 40–55, and with the Psalms (including Exodus 15). This suggests that it was composed deliberately for its present location and that the apparent lack of unity within the chapter should not be explained by the...
The ἵναπληρωθῇ must not be explained away, the outline was presented by Isaiah of the reception which the favored but prejudiced and hardened house of Israel gave to Divine revelations. It would be filled in by the events which were then about to be enacted. God's intuition...
Several critics of the Book of Mormon contend that 2 Nephi 12:16 is not really evidence for the authenticity of the Book of Mormon and can be explained away as an awkward attempt by Joseph Smith to add a seemingly impressive but incorrect modification to the Book of Mormon text, exploiting...