“I Have Sought Much Opportunity That I Might Speak Unto You”

"Satan would always rather capture a spiritual general than one of lesser rank. And be it remembered that the Lord himself was not immune from personal confrontation with the evil one (see Matthew 4), and that Christ in turn said to Peter, the chief apostle, 'Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat' (Luke 22:31). And thus it is that Sherem 'sought much opportunity' (Jacob 7:6) to engage Jacob the prophet." (Robert L. Millett, Book of Mormon Symposium Series, edited by PR Cheesman, MS Nyman, and CD Tate, Jr., 1988, p. 177)