fetchface wrote:Exactly, if "by his own hand upon papyrus" doesn't mean 'autographic,' then words can mean whatever we want them to, regardless of the intention of the person who said them.
Mormons today be damned. I don't care what those lying rats say. All that matters is what Joseph Smith and his buddies said. Today's apologists are modern rats hardly worthy to lick the dust off ole Joe's boots.
Appeal to the 1828 Dictionary (Smith's time)
"by his own hand upon papyrus"
1. "by": Through, or with, denoting the agent, means, instrument or cause
2. "his": Of him
3. "own": Belonging to; possessed; peculiar; usually expressing property with emphasis, or in express exclusion of others
4. "hand": In man, the extremity of the arm, consisting of the palm and fingers, connected with the arm at the wrist; the part with which we hold and use any instrument
5. "upon": Resting or being on the top or surface
6. "papyrus": Egyptian plant, a kind of reed, of which the ancients made paper