“Many of the things he recited to his brethren were familiar to them. Some … of his listeners had undergone … the tribulations of which he spoke. … Out of all their trials and afflictions, which were many, they all knew whereof Alma spoke … .
“All these things out of which the Lord had rescued them and of which Alma reminded them, led to the questions which were uppermost in his mind. … Has the remembrance of these things stirred you up to a renewed determination to serve God, even that you keep all His commandments?” (Reynolds and Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 3:75) .