“I Should Have Perished Also”

Brant Gardner

Nephi again expresses concern for all humankind, coupled with a movingly personal expression of the physical cost of spiritual events. The manifest sorrow he feels over Jerusalem’s downfall communicates inevitable loneliness at the loss of his homeland, extended family, and friends. Is it possible that he experienced some form of survivor’s guilt because he has been spared in the devastation that would have probably slain him as well?

Second Witness: Analytical & Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 1

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