Alma calls for repentance. He feels no joy at the doom he has foreseen and continues to appeal to the Ammonihahites to take the all-important step that will deflect the predicted temporal and spiritual death. He asks them to repent.
Alma mentions “these his second commandments,” an allusion to his opening retelling of the story of the Garden of Eden. The first commandments were given at Eden’s beginning (Alma 12:31: “the first commandments as to things which were temporal”). “These his second commandments” are those that Yahweh gave after the fall, so that humankind could learn to repent and chose good over evil.
Text: This chapter is broken in the middle of a paragraph of the 1830 edition, but there is no interruption to the flow of concepts as the chapter division implies. Alma continued his discourse without significant pause.