Alma 41:12
~73 BC
1830 Edition
And now behold, is the meaning of the word restoration, to take a thing of a natural state, and place it in an unnatural state, or to place it in a state opposite to its nature?
Influences
1 Corinthians 14:11 (KJV)
Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Changes
And now behold, is the meaning of the word restoration, to take a thing of a natural state, and place it in an unnatural state, or to place it in a state opposite to its nature?
Simple English
Does the word restoration mean to take something from its natural state and put it in an unnatural state? Does it mean to put it in a state that is opposite to how it should be?
Paraphrase
Does restoration mean taking something from its natural state and putting it in an unnatural one? Placing it in a state opposite to its nature?