This verse contains Mormon's appeal to those who should live, when, in the Lord's own due time, He will cause the Records of their forefathers, and the Records of the Jews to come unto them whose father's bodies are now moldering in dust upon the field of battle, and whose time of repentance was procrastinated too long. His desire was to add his own to the testimony of these two records. For, Mormon infers, that if you believe the Gospel as it is made known to you by the Jewish Records which will come to you through the Gentiles, you will believe my words; and further he says that if you believe what is written in the Records of the Jews, you will believe what is written about your forefathers, and will also see wherein the words of Lehi, your venerable ancestor, were indeed true when in past ages they were literally fulfilled in God's wonderful ways among his descendants: "Great and marvelous are Thy works, O Lord God Almighty." (I Nephi 1:14) Mormon here uses other words, but in them expresses the same idea; he says: "Ye will know concerning your fathers, and also the marvelous works which were wrought by the power of God among them." (v. 9)