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<strong>Book</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Mormon</strong> <strong>Commentary</strong><br />

<strong>Mormon</strong> Chapter 4<br />

<strong>Mormon</strong> 4:98 And now behold, we have written this record according to our knowledge in the<br />

characters, which are called among us the reformed Egyptian, being handed down and altered by us,<br />

according to our manner <strong>of</strong> speech.<br />

Moroni adds, "If our plates had been sufficiently large, we should have written in the Hebrew;<br />

...and ...ye would have had no imperfection in our record" (99). "None other people knoweth our<br />

language. ..therefore he [God] hath prepared means for the interpretation there<strong>of</strong>" (100). With the<br />

plates Joseph found an instrument called "Urim and Thummin" or "interpreters." Only seers were<br />

able to use them. Even then one needed to be spiritually attuned to receive the power to translate.<br />

Joseph therefore generally said, "The translation was done by the gift and power <strong>of</strong> God."<br />

Moroni closes the record by expressing the desire that "our brethren" should be restored "to the<br />

knowledge <strong>of</strong> Christ" (102).

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