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Book of Mormon Commentary
4 Nephi Chapter 1
They built up churches and adorned them with all manner of precious things. In A.D. 260 "the
wicked part of the people began again to build up the secret oaths and combinations of Gadianton"
(50), while those called Nephites became proud and vain because of their exceeding riches (51).
In A.D. 300 the Nephites and the Lamanites had become exceeding wicked, one like unto another
(53) The Gadiantons "spread over all the face of the land; and there were none that were righteous,
save it were the disciples of Jesus" (54).
Amos died A.D. 305, and his brother Ammoron kept the record in his stead (56).
4 Ne 1:57 And it came to pass that when three hundred and twenty years had passed away, Ammoron,
being constrained by the Holy Ghost, did hide up the records which were sacred;
God had a purpose In making and protecting all the records which had been handed down from
one generation to the next. He raised tip dependable servants to keep them from harm, even
though few were interested in them. The purpose was "that they [the records] might come again
unto the remnant of the house of Jacob, according to the prophecies and the promises of the Lord"
(59).