Narrative analysis: Having introduced his next topic, Nephi pauses for an aside. Nephi is writing this later in life (assuredly well after their arrival in the New World) so he is presenting "old history." Nevertheless, this "old history" is still alive and vital to him, and Nephi's status as a man of God at the time of writing leads him into a current time (and future time) admonition concerning the God and Savior about whom Nephi learned in the experience he will shortly relate.