1 Ne 13:6-10
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Questions
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Verse 6
- How does the devil found a church? Don't other people have to do it for him?
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Verse 7
- How was this passage influenced by Ezek 16 (see especially verses 13 and 15)?
- What do harlots have to do with the great and abominable church?
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Verse 8
- What should we make of the fact that the description of the abominable church's desires focuses much more on material wealth than on sexual sin? Is it significant that the material wealth is mentioned first, and that the harlots are mentioned in what seems to be the same breath?(Cf. Jacob 2:22)
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Verse 9
- What does it mean that the abominable church destroys and enslaves the saints “for the praise of the world"? How is the word “saint” being used here? How does the abominable church destroy and enslave the saints?
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Verse 10
- Did Nephi and the New World prophets abandon the Old Testament practice of naming Seas?
- What does Nephi mean by "many waters"? Can we presume that he means "the ocean" or is there something else going on here?
- Is this the first intimation that Nephi might have that they will have to cross the ocean to get to their land of promise?
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Lexical notes
- Many Waters According to LDS.org, this phrase occurs 24 times in scripture, including a dozen times in the Old and New Testament. In Hebrew, the word translated as "many" is rab, which can also be translated as great, much, mighty.
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