The next two chapters of Mormon’s record are written by Moroni. We should remember the following rule: Moroni is the author of Mormon 8-9; and Mormon is the author of Moroni 8-9. As Moroni finishes his father’s record, we get a close look at a man who lived a life we can only imagine—completely alone, left to wander for fear of his own life, exclaiming whither I go it mattereth not (v. 4). Significantly, Mormon had no one to talk to—but us.
Jeffrey R. Holland
“Following this dismaying decline of Nephite civilization documented by his father, Moroni picked up the recorder’s task, but he did not write to any living audience. Rather, he directed his final testimony—in fact, three final testimonies—to those who would receive the record in the last days…Moroni’s experience was painful, for he observed in life, in history, and in vision the pollution and destruction of three glorious civilizations—his own Nephite world, the Jaredite nation, and our latter-day dispensation.” (Christ And The New Covenant, p. 323)