“I Speak Unto You as Though I Spake from the Dead”

Of course Moroni is not dead as he writes, but he understands that he will be dead when his audience reads what he writes. The reason for including this statement is obscure. Perhaps it is a reference to communication from the other world, a revelation that should it happen to us, we would surely remember. Moroni is perhaps giving his word the testament of his life, and equating them to a revelation from the other side of the veil.