3 Nephi 20:46

Brant Gardner

Having established again that Jesus was the very Messiah for whom they had waited, he quoted Isaiah in the previous verses to indicate that the awaited Messiah would lead them, and particularly that he would publish peace as well as publish salvation. His conclusion to this section is that he declares that there will come a time when Jerusalem would “be inhabited again with my people.” That is, Christ was setting in motion events that would gather Israel. The predictions were that they would be gathered in both the Old World and the New. In this case, the emphasis is on the return to Jerusalem.

There is no break at this point in the 1830 edition.

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