“The Book of Mormon prophet who probably thought about scriptural symbolism and taught it more effectively than any other is Abinadi. Very early he warned King Noah that whatever he would do to Abinadi would be ‘a type and a shadow of things to come’—and indeed it was. … And … [Abinadi], like Christ, died lamenting that those who claimed a belief in the law of Moses could not recognize the Messianic teachings … toward which that law in its purity had always been directed” (Holland, Christ and the New Covenant, 171– 73).