“To Rule and Do According to Their Wills”

Brant Gardner

We have noted that it was the balance of social power that was rapid, not the shift in the desires of the population. Nevertheless, it serves Mormon’s purposes to make this a rapid descent into apostasy. In this case, he uses this rapid descent to set up Nephi’s lament that begins in the next verse.

Multidimensional Commentary on the Book of Mormon

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