As Abinadi ends his discourse, he returns to the theme of the priests who have not properly taught the law. In Mosiah 12:27 Abinadi had asked what the priests taught, and they replied in verse 28 that they taught the law of Moses. As part of Abinadi’s accusation against the priests, he had asked, in verse Mosiah 12:31, if salvation came through the law of Moses. His entire discourse that he just finished was to show that salvation came through the Messiah, not the law of Moses. Thus, as he finishes, he returns to the theme of what the priests teach. They might think that they teach the law of Moses, but Abinadi has shown that they are not teaching the means whereby salvation cometh. Therefore, he says to them, “Ought ye not to tremble and repent of your sins, and remember that only in and through Christ ye can be saved?”
Abinadi declares that “if ye teach the law of Moses, also teach that it is a shadow of those things which are to come—Teach them that redemption cometh through Christ the Lord, who is the very Eternal Father.” That has been the whole of his message. That was what he had come to declare, and now he has finished.
He testifies to what he has said with an amen. It ends the chapter.