“In Nephi we have one of the greatest prophets that ever trod the earth or to whom the God of our Salvation revealed His glorious will. He lived during the greater portion of the first century before Christ and disappeared from the knowledge of mankind but a short time before the advent of the Messiah in Bethlehem. He is first referred to in the Book of Mormon (44 B.C.) as the older of Helaman’s two sons, Lehi being the younger. These two brothers appear to have been inseparable during their life; they are almost always mentioned as associated in the great and ofttimes perilous labors of the ministry undertaken for the Salvation of either Nephites or Lamanites” (Reynolds and Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 5:215).