{"product_id":"2940014085083","title":"I, Mormon Make A Record: Book of Mormon Commentary, Volume 6","description":"The sixth and last volume of this Book of Mormon commentary\u003cbr\u003ecovers more of the time period of the Book of Mormon peoples\u003cbr\u003ethan any of the other five volumes. It begins during the thirty-fourth\u003cbr\u003eyear after the birth of Jesus Christ and ends in the four hundred and\u003cbr\u003etwenty-first year of that same time period, for a total of three hundred\u003cbr\u003eand eighty-seven years. These years are more than one-third of the\u003cbr\u003etotal years of the Nephite record (1021 years). This volume also\u003cbr\u003econtains an abridgment of around two thousand years of the Jaredite\u003cbr\u003erecord, the book of Ether. The other five volumes of the commentary\u003cbr\u003ecover only six hundred and thirty-four years, collectively, 600 B.C.\u003cbr\u003eto part of the year A.D. 34.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe geographical area is likewise sparsely treated and is only\u003cbr\u003espoken of in general terms. What place Mormon refers to as the people\u003cbr\u003ehaving \"spread upon all the face of the land\" is left in question (4\u003cbr\u003eNephi 1:23). The geographical area of \"the north countries\" (Mormon\u003cbr\u003e2:3) is not clearly defined. How far northward the people of Nephi\u003cbr\u003ewere driven is questionable (see Mormon 2:20, 29). The location of\u003cbr\u003ethe land of Desolation, where the Jaredites were destroyed (see Alma\u003cbr\u003e22:30–31) and where many of the last battles of the Nephites were\u003cbr\u003efought, is also not clearly defined (see Mormon chapters 3 \u0026amp; 4). Again\u003cbr\u003ehow much farther north the Nephites were driven is left unanswered\u003cbr\u003e(see Mormon 5:3–7). The land of Cumorah is controversial (Mormon\u003cbr\u003echapter 6), but we will assume it is in New York until the time when\u003cbr\u003e\"a knowledge of these things must come unto the remnant of these\u003cbr\u003epeople, and also unto the Gentiles\" (Mormon 5:8). In this work we\u003cbr\u003ewill concentrate on the guidelines for life given to us by the abridgers,\u003cbr\u003ewhich will bring us \"nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than\u003cbr\u003eby any other book\" (Book of Mormon Introduction; quoting TPJS,\u003cbr\u003e194).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFourth Nephi is Mormon's abridgment of the last of the records\u003cbr\u003eof the Nephites (4 Nephi). The time period is from sometime in A. D.\u003cbr\u003e34 to 321. This abridgment covered a period of 286 plus years (the\u003cbr\u003eending of the thirty-fourth year and the thirty-fifth are named but no\u003cbr\u003ecomments are made). The records are condensed to just four pages\u003cbr\u003ein our present Book of Mormon text. Mormon then made a record of\u003cbr\u003ehis own time on earth. He begins with the statement, \"And now I,\u003cbr\u003eMormon, make a record\" (Mormon 1:1). The title of this volume of\u003cbr\u003ethe Book of Mormon commentary series is taken from this statement.\u003cbr\u003eThe first seven chapters of the book of Mormon, the small book\u003cbr\u003ewithin the Book of Mormon, are Mormon's abridgment of his own\u003cbr\u003ework (see Mormon 5:9). His son, Moroni, completed the record of his\u003cbr\u003efather (Mormon chapters 8 and 9). Moroni then abridged \"the twenty\u003cbr\u003eand four gold plates which were found by the people of Limhi, which\u003cbr\u003eis called the book of Ether\" (Ether 1:2). This record is an account of\u003cbr\u003ethe Jaredites who occupied the promised land of the Americas before\u003cbr\u003ethe Nephites. He condensed this record of around two thousand years\u003cbr\u003eof Jaredite occupancy into just thirty-one pages in our present text of\u003cbr\u003ethe Book of Mormon. In these thirty-one pages, he freely inserted\u003cbr\u003ecomments or precepts learned from the record of the Jaredites.\u003cbr\u003eAfter finishing the abridgment of the Jaredites, Moroni added his\u003cbr\u003eown book to those previously assembled. He added things taught by\u003cbr\u003ethe Savior during his \"Divine Ministry\" as a resurrected being among\u003cbr\u003ethe Nephites in the Americas (3 Nephi chapters 11–27). His father,\u003cbr\u003eMormon, had promised to add some of these things but was unable\u003cbr\u003eto do so, and Moroni fulfilled the promise (see 3 Nephi 18:37). Moroni\u003cbr\u003ealso included the words of a sermon delivered by his father, Mormon,\u003cbr\u003eand the contents of two epistles he had received from his father\u003cbr\u003e(Moroni chapters 7–9). Thus Moroni finished his father's record\u003cbr\u003e(Mormon 7–9), and quoted his father in the ending of his own record\u003cbr\u003e(Moroni 7–9). The last inclusion upon the record by Moroni was\u003cbr\u003ewritten to the Lamanites of the latter days (Moroni 10). \u003cbr\u003eThese additions were a fitting conclusion to a marvelous work that was to come forth\u003cbr\u003eamong the children of men (see D\u0026amp;C 4:1; 6:1; 11:1; 12:1; 14:1).\u003cbr\u003eMay this work be helpful in your study of the Book of Mormon--a\u003cbr\u003ebook that was given to us that it be taken from the Gentiles to the\u003cbr\u003eLamanites \"to try their faith. . . , then shall the greater things be made\u003cbr\u003emanifest unto them\" (3 Nephi 26:8–9).","brand":"Mary Ann Nyman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145998319856,"sku":"2940014085083","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014085083_p0.jpg?v=1763600367","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014085083","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}