Egyptian and Arabic side be side is ridiculous and impossible." Doctrine and Doomas. These testimonies represent the scholarship of the world. They establish one fact: The Mormon plates were a fraud. There was not an Egyptian character on them.
The Old Testament, it is claimed, was written in Hebrew. Suppose that the testimony of scholars was unanimous that there was not a Hebrew character in the manuscripts of which it was claimed to be a translation. If such was the case it would be the unanimous decision, among the intelligent, that the whole thing was a fraud. In that case no intelligent, conscientious person would want to appear before the public in its defense.
It is claimed that the New Testament was written in Greek. Suppose, however, that the unanimous decision of scholars was that there was not a Greek letter in the manuscripts of which it was said to be a translation. In that event no intelligent, conscientious man would want to appear before the public in order to defend its claims as a revelation from God. If it was as we have supposed with regard to the Bible he who would undertake its defence would do so under circumstances that would insure his defeat in the judgment of all intelligent people. Under just such disadvantages all must labor who undertake to defend the claims of the Book of Mormon. The fact that people accept and undertake the defense of that book is a demonstration of the gullibility of the human mind in matters religious.
