Alma 10:1-5

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Questions

Does this fit with the pattern of preaching we have seen Alma use? (See the questions for Alma 8:9-11.)

Why don't we have more written about Aminadi and this incident of the writing on the wall of the temple? Which temple did this happen at?
Why does Amulek give his genealogy here?

Why was it important for Amulek to establish his descent from Nephi, and to give the lineage of Lehi and Nephi?
What do we know about the blessing promised to the tribe of Manasseh?

What does it mean for Amulek to say he is "a man of no small reputation"?
Why does Amulek reference his family, friends, and riches?
What does it mean for Amulek to have "acquired much riches by the hand of my industry"? Whereas most people would have been subsistence farmers, does this indicate that Amulek is perhaps of a more noble class or perhaps some kind of craft specialist, rather than a farmer?
What does Amulek mean by "industry"?
What constitutes "riches" in Nephite or Ammonihah society?

Why does Amulek say that he has not "known much of the ways of the Lord"?
What does Amulek mean by "mysteries and marvelous power" of the Lord?
What does the "preservation of the lives of this people" have to do with the "mysteries and marvelous power" of the Lord?
What does Amulek mean by "marvelous" power? Is this just a flowery adjective, or does it have a greater significance?

Marvelous. Webster's 1828 dictionary gives three definitions, including: 1. Wonderful; strange; exciting wonder or some degree of surprise (eg. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps.118), 2. Surpassing credit; incredible, 3. The marvelous, in writings, is that which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; opposed to probable. The term translated marvelous in Ps 118:23 is the Hebrew Pala', which occurs 69 times in the Old Testament, and seems to refer to something being hard, difficult, extraordinary, beyond one's power.

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