Hugh Nibley
“In chapter 7 you notice that Mormon is sick to death of violence. He wants rest and peace. He’s just obsessed with it now. He said right at the beginning that since he was old enough to observe the ways of men, he had seen nothing but this restless violence (Mormon 2:18)…[Now he says] ”I want to talk of peace for a change with some peaceable people.“ He wants a peaceable world and he wants a rest. He’s sick and tired….Peace and rest are foremost in his mind here, and it comes out throughout this chapter.” (Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Lecture 112, p. 277)