“Other things Ether saw were simply too ‘great and marvelous’ for Moroni to record. (Ether 13:13.) How marvelous these must have been—in view of the great things Moroni was able to record!
“Ether had a special perspective in his life. A fellow prophet, Moroni, paid Ether this compliment: ‘And now I, Moroni, proceed to finish my record concerning the destruction of the people of whom I have been writing.
“‘For behold, they rejected all the words of Ether; for he truly told them of all things, from the beginning of man.’ …
“Ether’s degree of disclosure to those he taught no doubt made for sweeping sermons” (Maxwell, “Three Jaredites,” 7).