2 Ne 25:1-5
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Verse 2
- Works of darkness. Whose works were works of darkness, the Jews' or Nephi's people? If the Jews, why couldn't Nephi teach just the "manner of prophesying among the Jews" (v. 1) without teaching the works of darkness?
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Lexical notes
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Exegesis
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Verse 4
Nephi says that he prophecies "according to the plainness which hath been with [him] from the time [he] came out from Jerusalem." It is interesting that this plainness "has been with [him]" since Nephi left Jerusalem but not before. Compare Alma 13:23. There Alma identifies one of the reasons that glad tidings are declared by Angels to them "in plain terms" is because they are wanderers in a strange land. It seems that the Lord has chosen to give the people of the Book of Mormon plainness in a way he didn't choose to give it to those in Jerusalem.
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Verse 1
- Why does Isaiah seem so difficult? See this comment by Jacob at the New Cool Thang blog asking about the contrast between this explicit explanation about the difficulty of Isaiah and the implicit explanation given in Isa 6:9-10.
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Verse 4
- See this post for speculation that this view of Nephi's leads to less apocalyptic visions being included in the Book of Mormon.
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