“If a Man Hide Up a Treasure in the Earth”

Brant Gardner

Literary: This theme of a treasure that is lost in the earth is part of the sermon of Samuel the Lamanite which comes in the next chapter (Helaman 13:31-36). It is quite probable that Mormon’s reference here is to Samuel’s sermon which he would know that he is about to write. The theme of the slippery treasures will be examined at that point.

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