Questions Arising within This Chapter

Around AD 360, at the age of 49, what did Mormon preach to his people at the close of the ten-year time of treaty (see Mormon 3:2–3)?
Why did Mormon refuse to lead his people after AD 362 (Mormon 3:10–16)?
What might it mean to "stand as an idle witness" (Mormon 3:16)?
How can a person become free from the natural urge to get revenge? Are we free from this problem? In what ways do we get back at people in our society today (Mormon 3:10–16)?
What is Mormon’s purpose in writing his own book and also the entire Book of Mormon (Mormon 3:17–22)? How does this statement of purpose compare with Moroni’s statement of purpose in the Title Page of the Book of Mormon? Or with Nephi’s statement of purpose in 1 Nephi 1:20?
How much of the Book of Mormon had Mormon completed by this time? Had he spent much of the time during the ten-years during the treaty of peace working on that project? That may well have been the case. One might think that Mormon could have continued writing and inscribing some things during the next 23 years until his death in AD 385, but with a major population relocation to the land of Desolation and with at least eight more military offensives occurring during those remaining years, the circumstances under which Mormon could have worked on the sacred record during that time would have been far less than ideal.