“Even Less Than the Dust of the Earth”

Brant Gardner

Both Benjamin and Mormon understood that the Lord stands ready to bless us for obedience, and both used dust imagery to make their point. I read Mormon’s passage as evidence that he had studied his sources and that this image is a purposeful allusion to this earlier prophet-king.

Second Witness: Analytical & Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 5

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