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28 - Book of Mormon - Joseph Smith Jr · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter eleven. Now it was in the law of Mosiah
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  Speaker 1: that every man who was a judge of the law,
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  Speaker 1: or those who were appointed to be judges, should receive
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  Speaker 1: wages according to the time which they labored to judge
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  Speaker 1: those who were brought before them to be judged. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if a man owed another and he would not pay
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  Speaker 1: that which he did owe, he was complained of to
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  Speaker 1: the judge, and the judge executed authority and sent forth
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  Speaker 1: officers that the man should be brought before him, and
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  Speaker 1: he judged the man according to the law and the
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  Speaker 1: evidences which were brought against him. And thus the man
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  Speaker 1: was compelled to pay that which he owed, or to
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  Speaker 1: be stripped or be cast out from among the people
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  Speaker 1: as a thief and a robber. And the judge received
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  Speaker 1: for his wages according to his time, a sea nine
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  Speaker 1: of gold for a day, or a senum of silver,
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  Speaker 1: which is equal to a sea nine of gold. And
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  Speaker 1: this is according to the law which was given. Now
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  Speaker 1: these are the names of the different pieces of their
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  Speaker 1: gold and of their silver, according to their value. And
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  Speaker 1: the names are given by the Nephites, for they did
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  Speaker 1: not reckon after the manner of the Jews, who were
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  Speaker 1: at Jerusalem. Neither did they measure after the manner of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews. But they altered their reckoning and their measure
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  Speaker 1: according to the minds and circumstances of the people in
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  Speaker 1: every generation until the reign of the Judges, they having
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  Speaker 1: been established by King Mosiah. Now the reckoning is thus
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  Speaker 1: a sea nine of gold, and a sein of gold,
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  Speaker 1: a shum of gold, an a limna of gold, a
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  Speaker 1: senum of silver, an amnor of silver, an ezram of silk,
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  Speaker 1: and an on type of silver. A senum of silver
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  Speaker 1: was equal to a s nine of gold, and either
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  Speaker 1: for a measure of barley, and also for a measure
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  Speaker 1: of every kind of grain. Now the amount of a
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  Speaker 1: sion of gold was twice the value of a senine,
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  Speaker 1: and a shum of gold was twice the value of
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  Speaker 1: a seion, And alimna of gold was the value of
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  Speaker 1: them all. And an amnor of silver was as great
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  Speaker 1: as two senums, and an asram of silver was as
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  Speaker 1: great as four senums, and an ontie was as great
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  Speaker 1: as them all. Now this is the value of the
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  Speaker 1: lesser numbers of their reckoning. A shiblum is half of
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  Speaker 1: a senum. Therefore, a shiblum for half a measure of barley,
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  Speaker 1: and a shiblum is half of a ship biblum, and
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  Speaker 1: aliyah is the half of a shiblum. Now this is
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  Speaker 1: their number according to their reckoning. Now an anteon of
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  Speaker 1: gold is equal to three shiblums. Now it was for
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  Speaker 1: the sole purpose to get gain, because they received their
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  Speaker 1: wages according to their employ Therefore they did stir up
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  Speaker 1: the people to riotings and all manner of disturbances and wickedness,
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  Speaker 1: that they might have more employ that they might get
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  Speaker 1: money according to the suits which were brought before them.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore they did stir up the people against alma An Amulek.
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  Speaker 1: And this Ziezram began to question Amulek, saying, will he
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  Speaker 1: answer me a few questions which I shall ask you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Zizram was a man who was expert in the devices
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  Speaker 1: of the devil, that he might destroy that which was good.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore he said, unto Amulek, will he answer the questions
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  Speaker 1: which I shall put to you? An Amulek said unto him, yea,
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  Speaker 1: if it be according to the spirit of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: which is in me, For I shall say nothing which
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  Speaker 1: is contrary to the spirit of the Lord. And Zeizram
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  Speaker 1: said unto him. Behold, here are six anties of silver,
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  Speaker 1: And all these will I give THEE if thou wilt
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  Speaker 1: deny the existence of a supreme being. Now, Amulek said, O, thou,
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  Speaker 1: child of hell, why tempt ye me? Knowest thou that
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  Speaker 1: the Righteous yieldetht to no such temptations. Believest thou that
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  Speaker 1: there is no God? I say unto you. Nay, thou
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  Speaker 1: knowest that there is a God. But thou lovest that
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  Speaker 1: lucre more than him. And now thou hast lied before
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  Speaker 1: God unto me, Thou saidest unto me, behold these six anties,
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  Speaker 1: which are of great worth. I would give unto THEE,
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  Speaker 1: when thou hadst in thy heart to retain them from me.
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  Speaker 1: And it was only thy desire that I should deny
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  Speaker 1: the True and Living God, that thou mightest have cause
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  Speaker 1: to destroy me. And thou behold, for this great evil,
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt have thy reward. And Zizram said, unto him,
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  Speaker 1: thou sayest there is a true and living God. And
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  Speaker 1: Amulek said, yea, there is a true and living God.
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  Speaker 1: Now Zizram said, is there more than one God? And
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  Speaker 1: he answered no. Now Zizram said unto him again, How
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  Speaker 1: knowest thou these things? And he said, an angel hath
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  Speaker 1: made them known unto me? And Zizram said again, who
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  Speaker 1: is he that shall come? Is it the Son of God?
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  Speaker 1: And he said unto him, yea. And Zizram said again,
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  Speaker 1: shall he save his people in their sins? An Amulek
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  Speaker 1: answered and said, unto him, I say unto you, he
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  Speaker 1: shall not, for it is impossible for him to deny
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  Speaker 1: his word. Now Zizram said unto the people, see that
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  Speaker 1: ye remember these things, For he said, there is but
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  Speaker 1: one God. Yet he saith that the Son of God
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  Speaker 1: shall come, but he shall not save his people, as
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  Speaker 1: though he had authority to command God. Now Amulech saith
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  Speaker 1: again unto him. Behold thou hast lied, For thou sayest
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  Speaker 1: that I spake as though I had authority to command God,
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  Speaker 1: because I said he shall not save his people in
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  Speaker 1: their sins. And I say unto you again that he
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  Speaker 1: cannot save them in their sins, for I cannot deny
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  Speaker 1: his word. And he has said that no unclean thing
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  Speaker 1: can inherit the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, how can ye
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  Speaker 1: be saved? Except ye inherit the Kingdom of heaven. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: ye cannot be saved in your sins. Now, Ziazram saith again,
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  Speaker 1: unto him is the Son of God, the very eternal Father.
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  Speaker 1: An Amulech said, unto him, yea, he is the very
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  Speaker 1: eternal Father of heaven and of earth and all things
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  Speaker 1: which in them are. He is the beginning and the end,
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  Speaker 1: the first and the last. And he shall come into
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  Speaker 1: the world to redeem his people. And he shall take
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  Speaker 1: upon him the transgressions of those who believe on his name.
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  Speaker 1: And these are they that shall have eternal life, and
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  Speaker 1: salvation cometh to none else. Therefore, the wicked remain as
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  Speaker 1: though there had been no redemption made, except it be
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  Speaker 1: the loosing of the bands of death. For behold, the
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  Speaker 1: day cometh that all shall rise from the dead and
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  Speaker 1: stand before God and be judged according to their works.
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  Speaker 1: Now there is a death, which is called a temporal death,
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  Speaker 1: and the death of Christ shall loose the bands of
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  Speaker 1: this temporal death. That all shall be raised from this
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  Speaker 1: temporal death. The spirit and the body shall be reunited
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  Speaker 1: again in its perfect form, both limb and joint shall
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  Speaker 1: be restored to its proper frame. Even as we now
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  Speaker 1: are at this time, and we shall be brought to
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  Speaker 1: stand before God, knowing even as we know now and
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  Speaker 1: have a bright recollection of all our guilt. Now this
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  Speaker 1: restoration shall come to all, both old and young, both
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  Speaker 1: bond and free, both male and female, both the wicked
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  Speaker 1: and the righteous. And even there shall not be so
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  Speaker 1: much as a hair of their heads be lost. But
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  Speaker 1: everything shall be restored to its perfect frame as it
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  Speaker 1: is now or in the body, and shall be brought
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  Speaker 1: and be arraigned before the bar of Christ the Son,
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  Speaker 1: and God the Father, and the Holy Spirit, which is
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  Speaker 1: one eternal God, to be judged according to their works,
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  Speaker 1: whether they be good or whether they be evil. Now behold,
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  Speaker 1: I have spoken unto you concerning the death of the
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  Speaker 1: mortal body, and also concerning the resurrection of the mortal body.
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  Speaker 1: I say unto you that this mortal body is raised
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  Speaker 1: to an immortal body, that is from death, even from
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  Speaker 1: the first death, unto life, that they can die no more,
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  Speaker 1: their spirits uniting with their bodies, never to be divided,
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  Speaker 1: thus the whole becoming spiritual and immortal, that they can
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  Speaker 1: no more seek. Now, when Amulek had finished these words,
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  Speaker 1: the people began again to be astonished, and also Zizram
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  Speaker 1: began to tremble, and thus ended the words of Amulek.
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  Speaker 1: Or this is all that I have written Chapter twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Now Alma, seeing that the words of Amulek silenced Zizram,
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  Speaker 1: for he beheld that Amulek had caught him in his
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  Speaker 1: lying and deceiving to destroy him, And seeing that he
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  Speaker 1: began to tremble under a consciousness of his guilt, he
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  Speaker 1: opened his mouth and began to speak unto him, and
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  Speaker 1: to establish the words of Amulek, and to explain things beyond,
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  Speaker 1: or to unfold the scriptures beyond that which Amulek had done. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the words that Alma spoke unto Ziazram were heard by
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  Speaker 1: the people round about, for the multitude was great. And
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  Speaker 1: he spake on this wise. Now, Zizram, seeing that thou
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  Speaker 1: hast been taken in thy lying in craftiness, for thou
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  Speaker 1: hast not lied unto men only, but thou hast lied
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  Speaker 1: unto God. For behold, he knows all thy thoughts, and
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  Speaker 1: thou seest that thy thoughts are made known unto us
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  Speaker 1: by His spirit. And thou seest that we know that
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  Speaker 1: thy plan was a very subtle plan, as the subtlety
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  Speaker 1: of the devil, for to lie and to deceive this people,
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  Speaker 1: that thou mightst set them against us, to revile us
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  Speaker 1: and to cast us out. Now this was a plan
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  Speaker 1: of thine adversary, and he hath exercised his power in thee.
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  Speaker 1: Now I would say that ye should remember at what
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  Speaker 1: I say unto thee I say unto all. And behold
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  Speaker 1: I say unto you all, that this was a snare
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  Speaker 1: of the adversary which he has laid to catch this people,
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  Speaker 1: that he might bring you into subjection unto him, that
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  Speaker 1: he encircle you about with his chains, that he might
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  Speaker 1: chain you down to everlasting destruction according to the power
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  Speaker 1: of his captivity. Now, when Almah had spoken these words,
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  Speaker 1: Zizram began to tremble more exceedingly, for he was convinced
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  Speaker 1: more and more of the power of God. And he
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  Speaker 1: was convinced that Almah and Amulek had a knowledge of him.
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  Speaker 1: For he was convinced that they knew the thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: intense of his heart. For power was given unto them
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  Speaker 1: that they might know these things according to the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of prophecy. And Zizram began to inquire of them more diligently,
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  Speaker 1: that he might no more concerning the Kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 1: And he said into Almah, what does this mean which
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  Speaker 1: Amulek has spoken concerning the resurrection of the dead, That
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  Speaker 1: all shall rise from the dead, both the just and
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  Speaker 1: the unjust, and are brought to stand before God, to
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  Speaker 1: be joe udged according to their works. And now Almah
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  Speaker 1: began to expound these things unto him, saying, it is
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  Speaker 1: given unto many to know the mysteries of God. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: they are laid under a strict command that they shall
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  Speaker 1: not impart only according to the portion of His word
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  Speaker 1: which he doth grant, until the children of men, according
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  Speaker 1: to the heed and diligence which they given to him.
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  Speaker 1: And therefore he that will harden his heart the same
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  Speaker 1: receiveth the lesser portion of the Word. And he that
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  Speaker 1: will not harden his heart to him is given the
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  Speaker 1: greater portion of the Word, until it is given unto
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  Speaker 1: him to know the mysteries of God, until he know
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  Speaker 1: them in full. And they that will harden their hearts
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  Speaker 1: to them is given the lesser portion of the Word,
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  Speaker 1: until they know nothing concerning His mysteries. And then they
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  Speaker 1: are taken captive by the devil and led by his
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  Speaker 1: will down to destruction. Now this is what is meant
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  Speaker 1: by the chains of hell. An Amulek has spoken plainly
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  Speaker 1: concerning death and being raised from this mortality to a
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  Speaker 1: state of immortality, and being brought before the bar of
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  Speaker 1: God to be judged according to our works. Then if
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  Speaker 1: our hearts have been hardened, yea. If we have hardened
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  Speaker 1: our hearts against the word insomuch that it has not
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  Speaker 1: been found in us, then will our state be awful,
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  Speaker 1: For then we shall be condemned. For our words will
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  Speaker 1: condemn us. Yea. All our works will condemn us. We
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  Speaker 1: shall not be found spotless, and our thoughts will also
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  Speaker 1: condemn us. And in this awful state we shall not
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  Speaker 1: dare to look up to our God. And we would
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  Speaker 1: fain be glad if we could command the rocks and
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  Speaker 1: the mountains to fall upon us, to hide us from
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  Speaker 1: his presence. But this cannot be. We must come forth
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  Speaker 1: and stand before Him in his glory and in his
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  Speaker 1: power and in his might, majesty and dominion, and acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: to our everlasting shame, that all his judgments are just,
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  Speaker 1: that he is just in all his works, and that
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  Speaker 1: he is merciful unto the children of men. And that
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  Speaker 1: he has all power to save every man that believeth
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  Speaker 1: on his name, and bringeth forth fruit meet for repentance.
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  Speaker 1: And now behold, I say unto you, then cometh a death,
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  Speaker 1: even a second death, which is a spiritual death. Then
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  Speaker 1: is the time that whosoever dieth in his sins as
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  Speaker 1: to a temporal death, shall also die a spiritual death. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: he shall die as to things pertaining unto righteousness. Then
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  Speaker 1: is the time when their torments shall be as a
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  Speaker 1: lake of fire and brimstone, whose flame ascendeth up forever
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  Speaker 1: and ever. And then is the time that they shall
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  Speaker 1: be chained down to an everlasting destruction according to the
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  Speaker 1: power and captivity of Satan. He having subjected them according
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  Speaker 1: to his will, Then I say unto you, they shall
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  Speaker 1: be as though they had been no redemption made, for
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  Speaker 1: they cannot be redeemed according to God's justice, and they
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  Speaker 1: cannot die, seeing there is no more corruption. Now it
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  Speaker 1: came to pass that when Almah had made an end
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  Speaker 1: of speaking these words, the people began to be more astonished.
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  Speaker 1: But there was one Auntieana, who was a chief ruler
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  Speaker 1: among them, came forth and said, unto him, what is
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  Speaker 1: this that thou hast said that man should rise from
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  Speaker 1: the dead and be changed from this mortal to an
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  Speaker 1: immortal state, that the soul can never die. Does the
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  Speaker 1: scripture mean which saith that God placed Cherubim and a
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  Speaker 1: flaming sword on the east of the garden of Eden,
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  Speaker 1: lest our first parents should enter and partake of the
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  Speaker 1: fruit of the Tree of life and live forever. And
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  Speaker 1: thus we see that there was no possible chance they
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  Speaker 1: should live forever. Now Almah said unto him, this is
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  Speaker 1: the thing which I was about to explain. Now we
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  Speaker 1: see that Adam did fall by the partaking of the
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  Speaker 1: forbidden fruit, according to the word of God. And thus
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  Speaker 1: we see that by his fall all mankind became a
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  Speaker 1: lost and fallen people. And now behold, I say unto
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  Speaker 1: you that if it had been possible for Adam to
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  Speaker 1: have partaken of the fruit of the Tree of life
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  Speaker 1: at that time, there would have been no death, and
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  Speaker 1: the word would have been void, making God a liar.
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  Speaker 1: For he said, if thou eat, thou shalt surely die.
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  Speaker 1: And we see that death comes upon mankind. Yea, the
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  Speaker 1: death which has been spoken of by Amulik, which is
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  Speaker 1: the temporal death. Nevertheless, there was a space granted unto
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  Speaker 1: man in which he might repent. Therefore, this life became
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  Speaker 1: a probationary state, a time to prepare to meet God,
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  Speaker 1: a time to prepare for that endless state which has
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  Speaker 1: been spoken of by us, which is after the resurrection
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  Speaker 1: of the dead. Now, if it had not been for
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  Speaker 1: the plan of redemption, which was laid from the foundation
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  Speaker 1: of the world, there could have been no resurrection of
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  Speaker 1: the dead. But there was a plan of redemption laid,
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  Speaker 1: which shall bring to pass the resurrection of the dead,
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  Speaker 1: of which has been spoken. And now behold, if it
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  Speaker 1: were possible that our first parents could have gone forth
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  Speaker 1: and partaken of the tree of life, they would have
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  Speaker 1: been forever miserable, having no preparatory state. And thus the
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  Speaker 1: plan of redemption would have been frustrated, and the word
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  Speaker 1: of God would have been void, taking none effect. But behold,
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  Speaker 1: it was not so. But it was appointed unto men
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  Speaker 1: that they must die, and after death they must come
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  Speaker 1: to judgment, even that same judgment of which we have spoken,
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  Speaker 1: which is the end. And after God had appointed that
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  Speaker 1: these things should come unto man, behold, then he saw
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  Speaker 1: that it was expedient that man should know concerning the
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  Speaker 1: things whereof he had appointed unto them. Therefore he sent
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  Speaker 1: angels to converse with them, who caused men to behold
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  Speaker 1: of His glory, and they began from that time forth
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  Speaker 1: to call on his name. Therefore God conversed with men
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  Speaker 1: and made known under them the plan of redemption, which
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  Speaker 1: had been prepared for the foundation of the world. And
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  Speaker 1: this he made known unto them according to their faith
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  Speaker 1: and repentance and their holy work. Wherefore he gave commandments
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  Speaker 1: unto men, they having first transgressed the first commandments as
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  Speaker 1: to things which were temporal, and becoming as gods, knowing
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  Speaker 1: good from evil, placing themselves in a state to act,
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  Speaker 1: or being placed in a state to act according to
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  Speaker 1: their wills and pleasures, whether to do evil or to
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  Speaker 1: do good. Therefore God gave unto them commandments, after having
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  Speaker 1: made known unto them the plan of redemption, that they
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  Speaker 1: should not do evil, the penalty thereof being a second death,
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  Speaker 1: which was an everlasting death as to things pertaining and
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  Speaker 1: too righteousness. For on such the Plan of Redemption could
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  Speaker 1: have no power, for the works of justice could not
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  Speaker 1: be destroyed according to the supreme goodness of God. But
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  Speaker 1: God did call on men in the name of his son,
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  Speaker 1: this being the plan of redemption which was laid saying,
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  Speaker 1: if ye will repent and harden not your hearts, then
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  Speaker 1: I will have mercy upon you through mine only begotten son. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: whoever repenteth and hardeneth not his heart, he shall have
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  Speaker 1: claim on mercy through mine only begotten son, unto a
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  Speaker 1: remission of his sins. And thee shall enter into my rest.
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  Speaker 1: And whosoever will harden his heart and will do iniquity, behold,
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  Speaker 1: I swear in my wrath that he shall not enter
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  Speaker 1: into my rest. And now, my brethren, behold, I say
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  Speaker 1: unto you that if ye will harden your hearts, ye
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  Speaker 1: shall not enter into the rest of the Lord. Therefore
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  Speaker 1: your iniquity provoketh him, that he sendeth down his wrath
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  Speaker 1: upon you, as in the first provocation. Yea, according to
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  Speaker 1: his word, in the last provocation, as well as the first,
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  Speaker 1: to the everlasting destruction of your souls. Therefore, according to
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  Speaker 1: his word, unto the last death as well as the first.
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  Speaker 1: And now, my brethren, seeing ye know these things and
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  Speaker 1: that they are true, let us repent and harden not
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  Speaker 1: our hearts, that we provoke not the Lord, our God
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  Speaker 1: to pull down his wrath upon us in these his
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  Speaker 1: second commandments, which he has given unto us. But let
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  Speaker 1: us enter into the rest of God, which is prepared
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  Speaker 1: according to his word Chapter thirteen. And again, my brethren,
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  Speaker 1: I would cite your minds forward to the time when
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  Speaker 1: the Lord God gave these commandments unto his children. And
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  Speaker 1: I would that ye should remember that the Lord God
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  Speaker 1: ordained priests after his holy order, which was after the
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  Speaker 1: order of his son, to teach thee things unto people.
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  Speaker 1: And those priests were ordained after the order of his
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  Speaker 1: son in a manner that thereby the people might know
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  Speaker 1: in what manner to look forward to his son for redemption.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the manner after which they were ordained,
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  Speaker 1: being called and prepared from the foundation of the world
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  Speaker 1: according to the foreknowledge of God on account of their
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  Speaker 1: exceeding faith and good works in the first place, being
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  Speaker 1: left to choose good or evil. Therefore, they, having chosen
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  Speaker 1: good and exercising exceedingly great faith, are called with a
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  Speaker 1: holy calling. Yea, with that holy calling which was prepared
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  Speaker 1: with and according to a preparatory redemption for such And
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  Speaker 1: thus they have been called to this holy calling on
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  Speaker 1: account of their faith, while others would reject the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God on account of the hardness of their hearts
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  Speaker 1: and blindness of their minds. While if it had not
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  Speaker 1: been given for this, they might have had as great
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  Speaker 1: privilege as their brethren, or in fine, in the first place,
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  Speaker 1: they were on the same standing with their brethren. Thus
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  Speaker 1: this holy calling being prepared from the foundation of the world,
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  Speaker 1: for such as would not harden their hearts, being in
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  Speaker 1: and through the atonement of the only Begotten Son, who
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  Speaker 1: was prepared, and thus being called by this holy calling
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  Speaker 1: and ordained unto the high priesthood of the Holy Order
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  Speaker 1: of God, to teach his commandments unto the children of men,
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  Speaker 1: that they also might enter into His rest, this high
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  Speaker 1: priesthood being after the order of His Son, which order
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  Speaker 1: was from the foundation of the world, or in other words,
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  Speaker 1: being without beginning of days or end of years, being
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  Speaker 1: prepared from eternity to all eternity, according to His foreknowledge
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  Speaker 1: of all things. Now they were ordained after this manner,
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  Speaker 1: being called with a holy calling and ordained with a
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  Speaker 1: holy ordinance, and taking upon them the high prieststhood of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Order, which calling an ordinance and high priesthood
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  Speaker 1: is without beginning or end. Thus they became high priests forever,
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  Speaker 1: after the order of the Sun, the only begotten of
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  Speaker 1: the Father, who is without beginning of days or end
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  Speaker 1: of years, who is full of grace, equity and truth.
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  Speaker 1: And thus it is amen. Now, as I said concerning
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Order or this high priesthood, there were many
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  Speaker 1: who were ordained and became high priests of God. And
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  Speaker 1: it was on account of their exceeding faith and repentance
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  Speaker 1: and their righteousness before God, they choosing to repent and
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  Speaker 1: work righteousness rather than to perish. Therefore they were called
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  Speaker 1: after this Holy Order and were sanctified, and their garments
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  Speaker 1: were washed white through the blood of the Lamb. Now they,
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  Speaker 1: after being sanctified by the Holy Ghost, having their garments
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  Speaker 1: made white, being pure and spotless before God, they could
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  Speaker 1: not look upon sin, save it were with abhorrence. And
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  Speaker 1: there were many, exceedingly great, many who were made pure
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  Speaker 1: and entered into the rest of the Lord their God.
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  Speaker 1: And now, my brethren, I would that ye should humble
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  Speaker 1: yourselves before God and bring forth fruit meet for repentance,
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  Speaker 1: that ye may also enter into that rest. Yea humble yourselves,
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  Speaker 1: even as the people of the days of Melchizedic, who
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  Speaker 1: was also a high priest after this same order which
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  Speaker 1: I have spoken, who also took upon him the high
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  Speaker 1: priesthood forever. And it was the same Melchizedic to whom
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  Speaker 1: Abraham paid tithes. Yea, even our father Abraham paid tithes
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  Speaker 1: of one tenth part of all he possessed. Now these
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  Speaker 1: ordinances were given after this manner, that thereby the people
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  Speaker 1: might look forward on the Son of God, it being
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  Speaker 1: a type of his order, or it being his order,
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  Speaker 1: and this that they might look forward to him for
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  Speaker 1: a remission of their sins, that they might enter into
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the Lord. Now this Melchizedic was a
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  Speaker 1: king over the land of Salem, and his people had
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  Speaker 1: waxed strong in iniquity and abomination. Yea, they had all
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  Speaker 1: gone astray. They were full of all manner of wickedness.
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  Speaker 1: But Melchizedic, having exercised mighty faith and received the office
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  Speaker 1: of the high priesthood according to the Holy Order of God,
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  Speaker 1: did preach repentance unto his people. And behold, they did repent,
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  Speaker 1: and Melchizedic did establish peace in the land in his days.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore he was called the Prince of Peace. For he
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  Speaker 1: was the king of Salem, and he did reign under
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  Speaker 1: his father. Now there were many before him, and also
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  Speaker 1: there were many afterwards, but none were greater. Therefore of
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  Speaker 1: him they have more particularly made mention. Now I need
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  Speaker 1: to rehearse the matter what I have said. May suffice behold,
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures are before you. If ye will rest them,
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  Speaker 1: it shall be to your own destruction. And now it
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  Speaker 1: came to pass that when Alma had said these words
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  Speaker 1: unto them, he stretched forth his hand unto them and
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  Speaker 1: cried with a mighty voice, saying, now is the time
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  Speaker 1: to repent, for the day of salvation draweth nigh, yea.
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  Speaker 1: And the voice of the Lord, by the mouth of angels,
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  Speaker 1: doth declare it unto all nations. Yea. Doth declare it
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  Speaker 1: that they may have glad tidings of great joy, yea.
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  Speaker 1: And he doth sound these glad tidings among all his people, yea,
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  Speaker 1: even to them that are scattered abroad upon the face
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  Speaker 1: of the earth. Wherefore they have come unto us, and
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  Speaker 1: they are made known unto us in plain terms, that
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  Speaker 1: we may understand that we cannot err. And this because
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  Speaker 1: of our being wanderers in a strange land. Therefore we
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  Speaker 1: are thus highly favored, for we have these glad tidings
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  Speaker 1: declared unto us in all parts of our vineyard. For behold,
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  Speaker 1: angels are declaring it unto many at this time in
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  Speaker 1: our land. And this is for the purpose of preparing
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  Speaker 1: the hearts of the children of men to receive His
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  Speaker 1: word at the time of his coming in his glory.
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  Speaker 1: And now we only wait to hear the joyful news
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  Speaker 1: declared unto us by the mouth of angels of his coming.
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  Speaker 1: For the time cometh. And we know not how soon
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  Speaker 1: would to God that it might be in my day,
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  Speaker 1: but let it be sooner or later. In it I
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  Speaker 1: will rejoice, and it shall be made known unto just
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  Speaker 1: and holy men by the mouth of angels at the
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  Speaker 1: time of his coming, that the words of our fathers
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  Speaker 1: may be fulfilled according to that which they have spoken
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  Speaker 1: concerning him, which was according to the spirit of prophecy
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  Speaker 1: which was in them. And now, my brethren, I wish
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  Speaker 1: from the inmost part of my heart, yea with great anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: even unto pain, that ye would hearken unto my words
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  Speaker 1: and cast off your sins, and not procrastinate the day
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  Speaker 1: of your repentance. But that ye would humble yourselves before
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, and call on his holy name, and watch
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  Speaker 1: and pray continually, that ye may not be tempted above
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  Speaker 1: that which she can bear, and thus be led by
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, becoming humble, meek, submissive, patient, full of love,
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  Speaker 1: and all long suffering, having faith on the Lord, having
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  Speaker 1: a hope that ye shall receive eternal life, having the
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  Speaker 1: love of God always in your hearts, that ye may
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  Speaker 1: be lifted up at the last day and enter into
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  Speaker 1: His rest. And may God grant to you repentance, that
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  Speaker 1: ye may not bring down His wrath upon you, that
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  Speaker 1: she may not be bound down by the chains of hell,
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  Speaker 1: that she may not suffer the second death. And Alma
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  Speaker 1: spoke many more words unto the people, which are not
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  Speaker 1: written in this book. End of Alma, chapters eleven to thirteen.