“Nephites and the Jacobites and the Josephites and the Zoramites”
During the Savior’s visit and in the Zion society on the American continent that followed, there were not “any manner of -ites, but they were in one” (4 Nephi 1:17). As pride and wickedness crept into this society a “great division” took place which separated the people again into Nephite and Lamanite camps (see 4 Nephi 1:35-37). The division and conflicts here spoken of by Mormon are an extension of that earlier great division.
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