1 Nephi 14:28-30

Brant Gardner

This concludes Nephi’s vision. He has recounted the important outlines, but still left out some details. The theme of not being able to write everything will be repeated throughout the Book of Mormon. It is impossible to capture everything in writing.

At the end of his vision, Nephi testifies not only to what he saw, but to the fact that his father also saw these things. The subject of this vision is so important that the law of two witnesses also applies.

It is interesting, since Nephi links his vision with his father’s, that the emphasis of the two appears to be so different. It is possible that some of what Nephi records in detail as the vision of the future was also revealed to Lehi, but that Nephi waited to record it here. This hypothesis is strengthened by remembering that, right after discussing the symbolic dream, Lehi spoke of the mission of the atoning Messiah.

Nephi concludes with an amen that testifies to the truth of the vision, and also closes the chapter.

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