Jacob 1
I had never before considered the fact that Jacob knew of the eventual destruction of the Nephites just as well as Nephi did. Jacob is not alone in reducing his Divisions of the people to Nephites and Lamanites, through the rest of the record the divisions are generally used that way although they do, at times, acknowledge distinct subgroups from within these major divisions as it becomes necessary to identify a particular ideology or descendancy.
I just realized that all of Jacob 1 was a preamble for Jacob to identify himself as a new author with the intent that he might write the precious sermon of the next couple of chapters.
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