![]() ![]() Is this meeting a coincidence or divine intervention?īetween the header and this verse, we know that the sons of Mosiah are going to have some serious scrapes, but that they are going to make it through them just fine. Skousen omits the “with” after “met” here. ![]() Why didn’t the sons of Mosiah write their own record? (Note that there is another header before ch21 that one doesn’t specify that it came from Alma’s record.) Also note how weird it is that Alma refers to himself in the third person in 17:1, unless you read that as Mormon’s abridgment of Alma’s record.ġ And now it came to pass that as Alma was journeying from the land of Gideon southward, away to the land of Manti, behold, to his astonishment, he met with the sons of Mosiah journeying towards the land of Zarahemla. Now, it is possible that Alma’s record contained records written by others, but it is also possible that the sons of Mosiah told Alma what happened and he wrote it down. Also note “suffering and deliverance ” I think we’ll be able to make a case for reading Ammon as a Christ-figure, and that phrasing in the intro would certainly encourage that reading.Īlso note that this is Alma’s record. Note the emphasis on the fact that the sons gave up the kingdom–I think this is an interpretive key to understanding what happens in these chapters, particularly as we see Ammon exercising a very different kind of power. An account of the sons of Mosiah, who rejected their rights to the kingdom for the word of God, and went up to the land of Nephi to preach to the Lamanites their sufferings and deliverance-according to the record of Alma.
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