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Question: How do Church members assume that Joseph would have "used the plates" during translation?
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Question: How do Church members assume that Joseph would have "used the plates" during translation?
The typical scenario is that Joseph employed the Nephite interpreters, the "spectacles," as if they were a pair of glasses
Let's suppose that Joseph "used the plates." How, exactly, does one think that Joseph used the plates in the translation? He couldn't read the characters. The typical scenario that is used is that he employed the Nephite interpreters, the "spectacles," as if they were a pair of glasses, and used them to look at the text on the plates as he dictated. What are these "spectacles" supposed to be doing during this process? Are they somehow converting characters on the plates into English text? What is the difference between this and deducing the English text from a seer stone?
The "spectactles" were, in reality, two seer stones mounted in a frame
In reality, the "spectacles" consisted of two seer stones—they were not lenses. In addition, there are accounts indicating that Joseph actually placed the Nephite interpreters into his hat as well, to shield them from the ambient light.
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