Samuel declares the message that Mormon wants to emphasize. When the Lamanites are truly converted, they are “firm and steadfast in the faith.” As with the people of Ammon, these new converts have also forsaken warfare and their weapons. Mormon has already told that story, so we who read Samuel’s statement understand how significant that fact is. These new Lamanite converts are like the faithfulness of the people of Ammon. Like those people, “they will suffer themselves that they be trodden down and slain by their enemies, and will not lift their swords against them, and this because of their faith in Christ.”