“Recent research … has taken a closer look at the works of Mormon and Moroni to analyze these writers as authors and abridgers comparing their techniques and identifying unique and distinctive characteristics in the editorial styles of each … .
“Another significant difference is found in the use of the well-known but characteristic expression ‘and thus we see that. … ’ Mormon used it over twenty times to insert moral conclusions in the sections he wrote or abridged. … Moroni used the phrase only once (see Ether 14:25)” (Keller, “Mormon and Moroni as Authors and Abridgers,” 269–71).