https://www.lds.org/languages/eng/conte ... 2-hear-himIn the years that followed, he recounted the vision more publicly, drawing on scribes who could help him better express what defied all description.
I didn't have time to go into this on the podcast, but it strikes me that this is an attempt to account for the differences and even contradictions in the First Vision accounts . . . all without telling the reader about the differences and contradictions.
I have never heard this idea before.
Strangely, I always thought that scribes were there to write down what Joseph Smith told them to write.
But here we have the idea that the scribes helped Joseph Smith with the language of subsequent accounts.
So if there are problems with the different accounts, I expect we are to blame the helpful scribes.
There is no footnote for this (to me) unprecedented idea.
Has anybody else ever heard of this before?
All the Best!
--Consiglieri