“Perhaps I Might Preserve the Roots”
Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet
The metaphor of “the roots” is ambiguous but may refer to the blood of Israel and the influence of that blood throughout the earth (see Monte S. Nyman, An Ensign to All People, pp. 23, 35).
Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 2
References
Jacob 5:11–13
