Tag: Ether 3
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Preparing the way from the beginning
Yesterday\’s post about feet and the preparatory gospel got me thinking about the idea of preparation in general. Like so many scriptural terms, \”prepare\” (and the variations on this word) gets used in many interesting ways in the Book of Mormon. I believe we can learn a lot about the plan of salvation in general…
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Repetitive resumption in Ether — Moroni used it, too.
These posts (here and here) discuss the ancient scribal technique referred to as repetitive resumption, or Wiederaufnahme if you want to get German about it. There are numerous examples of this in the Book of Mormon. In this post, I\’d like to give another example where Moroni brackets a long aside with details about the…
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Internal Consistency throughout the Book of Ether
The Book of Ether offers perhaps the most complex example of internal consistency imaginable. In chapter 1, we encounter a list of the lineage of Jared, starting with the final member in that line (Ether) and extending back to Jared himself. 30 names are mentioned. What follows in the next 15 chapters is a detailed…
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Interesting Parallels Between the Book of Ether and the Old Testament
In the early chapters of Ether, we read of the destruction of the Tower of Babel, the confounding of the languages, and the Jaredite flight to the seashore, where they build barges to travel to a new land. Beginning in Ether 2:16, the Lord gives the Brother of Jared many instructions on the construction of…