“They Shall Be Kept from All Other Nations”

“…God deliberately kept the American continent hidden until after the Holy Roman Empire had been broken up and the various nations had established themselves as independent kingdoms. Keeping America hidden until this time was no accident.” (Ezra Taft Benson, God, Family, Country, p. 343)

“The claim is made that the Norsemen at a very early day visited the American continent; that they established colonies here and took back reports of their discoveries. Out of this, however, nothing has come, if it be true. There is a good and sufficient reason why nothing came of such discoveries. The Lord, as here declared by Lehi, promised to keep this western world from the knowledge of other nations until the time should come for that knowledge to be made known.” (Joseph Fielding Smith, The Progress of Man, p. 253)