“And Ether Was a Prophet of the Lord”

Brant Gardner

Redaction: This verse proclaims clearly that the record we have from Ether comes through Moroni’s interpretation. This verse fits properly with the style of all the rest of this text, yet it is a text that would not have been in a holographic document from Ether. Ether would have referred to himself in the first person, not describe his actions from a third person perspective as we see here. Thus we may reconfirm Moroni as the author of Ether in much the same way that his father Mormon was the author of the rest of the Book of Mormon. Moroni has begun with a text, but he has manipulated that text and retold it to suit his own purposes, just as his father had.

Multidimensional Commentary on the Book of Mormon

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