“The Time Passed Away with Us,… Like… a Dream”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet
How poetic and descriptive Jacob is in describing the fleeting moments and hours of our mortal probation! Moments blend into hours, hours into days, days into years, years into decades. Because our stay here is temporary; because the day of probation is over in an instant, as it were; because our handling of time will determine largely our place and station in eternity-for these reasons, the prophets continually plead for the people of the earth to guard their time, to improve their time, and to make wise use of their time.

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 2

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