Why did Moroni frequently insert his name into the text?

Thomas R. Valletta

“Moroni is usually careful about marking the beginning and ending of the comments that he has inserted into the abridged record. For example, his comments in Ether 3:17–20; 4:1–6:1; 8:18–26; and 12:6–13:1 are readily distinguishable from the abridged portions in the book of Ether. His frequent use of the phrase ‘I, Moroni’ in Ether 1:1; 3:17; 5:1; 6:1; 8:20; 8:26; 9:1; 12:6; 12:29; 12:38; and 13:1 makes it easy to tell what Moroni has written and what he has abridged” (Keller, “Mormon and Moroni as Authors and Abridgers,” 270).

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