The phrase “thus we see” is used by Mormon “over twenty times to insert moral conclusions in the sections he wrote or abridged (i.e., Alma 12:21; 24:19; 28:13; 30:60; 46:8; 50:19; Helaman 3:28; 6:34–36; 12:3). Moroni used the phrase only once (see Ether 14:25)” (Keller, “Mormon and Moroni as Authors and Abridgers,” 270–71).