2 Ne 9:26-30
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Questions
- vv. 28-33: What part of Isaiah’s prophecy do these refer to and amplify?
- vv. 28-29: What kind of “wisdom” does Jacob warn against? What makes that supposed wisdom foolishness?
- v. 29: What does it mean to "hearken unto the counsels of God"?
- v. 30: How might a wealthy person "despise the poor"? How might a wealthy person "persecute the meek"? How might wealthy people have their hearts "upon their treasures"?
- v. 30: What does it mean to make treasure your god?
- v. 30: Why doesn't Jacob give the rich an out here in the same way he does the learned in v. 29? --Why doesn't he say here "to be rich as to the things of the world is good if they ..."
- v. 30: Why does Jacob warn the rich? Does he warn all of those who are rich or only some? What does it mean to be “rich as to the things of the world"? How much does one have to have to be described that way? Does this verse give us any understanding of such scriptures as Matt 19:21-26 and Mark 10:21-27? Together, vv. 29-30 seem to connect learning with riches. Why might they do so? What is the connection?
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Exegesis
Verse 26 tells us that the atonement removes the guilt of those who don't obey the law because they don't know the law. We might have thought that such a transgression of the law doesn't require an atonement because the transgressor is not culpable. But it seems from the way Jacob understand the atonement that without the atonement such people would be guilty for transgressing laws they did not know.
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