Tag: Isaiah 40
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John the Baptist and the return from Babylon
2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.. Mark 1:3, see also Matthew 3:3, Luke 3:4, and John 1:23…
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Bosom
I became interested in the word bosom as I studied the phrase “taken unto himself” in Alma 45 and Alma 46. The connection comes from this verse: 69 And Enoch and all his people walked with God, and he dwelt in the midst of Zion; and it came to pass that Zion was not, for God received it up into his own…
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Rending the veil
Both Lord Wilmore and I have written about the veil before. See here and here. God’s presence (heaven) and the material creation (earth) are separated by a veil. Rending the veil opens the pathway for man into God’s presence and unites heaven and earth. This is symbolically represented by the temple. There are different ways…
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Scriptural repetition — An introduction
In this paper, Alan Goff makes a good case for intentional repetition in ancient Hebrew scripture (including the Book of Mormon whose writers have Hebrew heritage). The modern notion among historicist biblical scholars is that many repetitive elements in the Old Testament are clumsy, narrative failures and often evidence of various origins and textual development…
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Plain speech, plainness, and highways
The covenant path is plain, not in the sense of being mundane, but rather in the sense that it is not complicated or convoluted. The Book of Mormon states this repeatedly in many different ways, often centering the description on the word \’plain.\’ This post will offer an overview of how this word is used…
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"The whole face of the land" — a third covenant allusion in Mormon 8:8?
The intricacy of the Book of Mormon constantly surprises me. So often we find deeper layers of carefully-packed information which draw absolutely no attention to themselves. This is a source of excitement for me. It means incredible truths are waiting to be discovered by anyone willing to seek!  The second half of Mormon 8:8 is…