Henry C. Sheldon appeals to the Greek Psalter incident to criticize Joseph Smith.
Henry C. Sheldon, A Fourfold Test of Mormonism (New York: The Abingdon Press, 1914), 25–26
Another instance of fraudulent pretense, historically less important but quite as glaring as that just mentioned , is reported by the Rev. Henry Caswall. In 1842 he visited Nauvoo, Illinois, then the headquarters of Mormonism . To test the latter-day "prophet” he took with him a Greek manuscript of the Psalter, judged to be about six hundred years old and quite antique in appearance. The result of his interview he reports in these words: “I handed the book to the prophet and begged him to explain its con tents. He asked me if I had any idea of its meaning. I replied that I believed it to be a Greek Psalter; but that I should like to hear his opinion. "No," he said, "it ain't Greek at all, except perhaps a few words. What ain't Greek is Egyptian; and what ain't Egyptian is Greek. This book is very valuable. It is a dictionary of Egyptian hieroglyphics." Pointing to the capital letters at the commencement of each verse, he said: "Them figures is Egyptian hieroglyphics; and them which follow is the interpretation of the hieroglyphics written in Reformed Egyptian. Them characters is like the letters which was engraved on the golden plates.'"