This chapter shows that no one understood better the purpose
for keeping this sacred record than did Moroni.
Apparently it was he who sealed up that portion of the record the Lord
intended to continue to be held back for now.
In chapter 3 Moroni was shown the history of the future of the earth,
and was forbidden to share that information.
(I think others have seen that same vision, such as Nephi and John the
Revelator.) But he obviously saw in it
the publication of the record he was adding to, for this chapter is written to
the person who would translate and publish the record. Moroni is almost obsessed with the
publication of this abridged record. His
small contribution (compared to Nephi’s and Mormon’s) is pointedly written to
those of us who would 1600 years later be reading it.
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