Ntrw Posted July 18, 2015 Posted July 18, 2015 The Book of Mormon is fascinating. The English translation of an ancient metal codex, this book comes to us via the dictation of an unschooled, 23 year old farm boy, as he buried his face in the blackness of a hat, staring into a seer stone. One of the interesting themes of the book is a promise from God, to Lehi. Parts of this promise are quoted in numerous places through the book but a version of it, composed of two interdependent clauses, declares that if Lehi's descendants obey the commandments of God then they will prosper; if they disobey then they will be cut off from His presence. The promise was originally made to Lehi but is most alluded to by Alma and quoted only one time by Mormon. Lehi gave at least three renditions of this prophesy, hereafter reffered to as the Lord's promise or the promise: a complete version in the, now lost, Book of Lehi, taken from the Large Plates of Mormon, which were an abridgment of the Large Plates of Nephi, and two shorter versions found on the Small Plates of Nephi. In this post, I will show that Alma quoted or paraphrased from both versions of the Lord's Promise; he, and Mormon, alluded to and quoted from the longer form found in the Book of Lehi when addressing people who were both intimately distant from them and in spiritual peril; Alma alluded to the version on Small Plates when dealing with his sons, near the end of his mortal life, in imitation of Lehi. In other words, Alma was familiar with both versions of the promise, in the Large Plates and the Small Plates, and chose which version of the promise he would use based on who his audience was....http://averroes2.blogspot.com/2015/07/translating-book-of-mormon-almas-use-of.html?m=1 1
Avatar4321 Posted July 19, 2015 Posted July 19, 2015 Particularly interesting because the small plates were translated after alma
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