Alma 12:6-10
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Questions
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Verse 8
- Zeezrom's change. How has Zeezrom changed? (How can you tell?)
- First question. Why are these questions the first ones that Zeezrom asks?
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Verse 9
- Mysteries. What is a mystery of God? “Mystery” and “mysteries” are used 70 times in the English scriptures (see link below). Its most common synonym is “secret.” If many know the mysteries of God, how are they a secret? Notice that these words occur much more often in Restoration scriptures than in the Bible. Why do you think that is?
- Impart only. What does “they shall not impart only according to the portion of his word which he doth grant unto the children of men, according to the heed and diligence which they give unto him” mean in contemporary, ordinary English?
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Verses 9-15
- Resurrection and mysteries. Here Alma indirectly explains why he told Zeezrom about temporal death and the resurrection. What is his explanation—what does it have to do with the mysteries of God?
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Lexical notes
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Verse 9
- Mysteries. While we don't know exactly what word is being translated here as "mysteries", in the New Testament the English word "mystery" is a translation of the Greek noun musterion, which originally meant the secret teachings and religious rites of ancient religious orders—such as the Orphic mysteries. The equivalent Hebrew word of mystery means ordinance or hand.
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Exegesis
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Related links
- Verses 9-11: See a list of scriptures using the term mystery or mysteries here.
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