Tag: Moses 1
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“Blindness of mind” and “rending the veil of unbelief”
The ideas I’ll cover in this post have been simmering in my head for quite some time. I occasionally have thoughts while studying the scriptures that I instantly recognize as significant, but which take weeks or months to develop into ideas I can actually write down. This is an example of that. “Blindness of Mind” This curious…
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Nephi’s “dry ground”/”wither” wordplay; plus some interesting connections between 1 Nephi 17 and Moses 1
As I was researching creation-covenant themes in Helaman, I found an interesting example of probable Hebrew wordplay in Nephi’s words to his brothers as they build the ship in Bountiful. 1 Nephi 17 is a complex chapter, with all kinds of interesting literary devices on display. Nephi makes numerous direct and indirect references to Moses,…
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Belief as the gate to "wisdom's path"
Moses 1:31-32 stood out to me recently: 31 And behold, the glory of the Lord was upon Moses, so that Moses stood in the presence of God, and talked with him face to face. And the Lord God said unto Moses: For mine own purpose have I made these things. Here is wisdom and it…
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"Taken unto himself"
As mentioned in a recent post, I looked at Alma 46, in which Moroni quotes a prophecy of the patriarch Jacob/Israel comparing the preservation of a remnant of the coat of Joseph to a righteous remnant of his seed. In making this comparison, he uses a unique phrase, highlighted in red below: 24 Yea, let us preserve…
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The everlasting covenant and gospel dispensations — Part 5 (Moses)
The previous parts of this series are found here: Part 1: Introduction and Adam Part 2: Enoch Part 3: Noah Part 4: Abraham I honestly thought that I would combine at least 2-3 dispensations in each post, but this turned out to be more elaborate and a longer series than anticipated. Moses This post is…
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Adam and Eve in the scriptures, part 3
This is the final post in a series about references to Adam and Eve in the scriptures. Part 1 offered a numerical overview. Part 2 looked qualitatively at references to Adam and Eve in the Bible and the Doctrine & Covenants. This final part will first look at references to Adam and Eve in the…
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"Word", "thing" and Christ — Part 2: Does the fruit of the tree of life have seeds?
This series is based on the Hebrew \’dbr\’ root which can mean both word and thing. We saw how that plays out in the creation account in part 1. I have actually mentioned this root in a previous post discussing Alma 32. This chapter seems to play on this word/thing dualism too, indicating that this dual meaning from Hebrew…
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"Word", "thing" and Christ — Part 1: The word materializes
I\’m going to split this into a three part series, all based on a Hebrew root, \’dbr\’. It is related to speaking and can both be a verb (to talk, speak) or a noun (a word or a speech). When used as a noun, it can also be translated into \”thing\” or \”matter\”. I find…
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Another layer of meaning to "every good thing"
I wrote a blog post a while back about how \”every good thing\” in Moroni 7 links together two important themes in the chapter. In short, Mormon spends the first part of the chapter defining \”good\” and its source. Then he asks us to \”lay hold\” on it. The rest of the chapter is spent…
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