Tag: Alma

Alma 59 – 60 The evidence of wickedness must have been all the more obvious from the improbable defeat at Nephihah when Moroni had recently learned of the miraculous success for Helaman and his righteous soldiers. The irony of Moroni’s suggestion that Pahoran was neglecting the army because he was surrounded by security must have…

Alma 58 It sounds like Helaman is dealing at this time with a Lamanite army that has learned the various defensive techniques that the Nephites had been employing both in taking cities but also in making defenses when they venture out of their strongholds. It’s interesting that the men who came to Helaman were unaware…

Alma 57 Before Ammoron tried exchanging prisoners with Moroni he tried bargaining with Helaman to give up his weakest city in exchange for the return of his men. Neither of his attempts to bargain with the Nephites to reclaim his captive men was met with acceptance.

Alma 56 This epistle for Helaman to Moroni was written about four years after Helaman took command of his stripling warriors. By now they are seasoned warriors.

Alma 55 Moroni had ample opportunity to be bloodthirsty if that had been his disposition.

Alma 54 Moroni could have abridged a 1-to-1 prisoner exchange to avoid increasing the amount of food he needed to support his people as the family-for-1 exchange did but he knew that a 1-for-1 exchange would lead to his men being held prisoner while the women and children we released to in in exchange for…

Alma 53 Moroni had to juggle a variety of priorities. He had to defend Nephite lands, retake fallen cities, promote the standard of liberty, maintain prisoners, solicit popular and official support, and ensure that the military efforts didn’t prevent the production and distribution of essential supplies for civilians. It’s like a larger scale of the…

Alma 52 Even when the Lamanites had possession of fortified cities the Nephites had two advantages. First, they were in their own land which meant that they were safe to operate in the open while the Lamanites were essentially confines to the walled cities they had taken. Second, the Nephites had designed the fortifications so…

Alma 51 For those conservative Latter-day Saints who insist on the view that Abraham Lincoln was a bad president because of his assumption of unconstitutional powers I would point them to Captain Moroni who abandoned his defense of the Nephite lands in order to fight the “pacifist” king-men. I don’t think you can be intellectually…

Alma 50 When Amalickiah comes down at the head of his armies he will have no cause to doubt whatever report he received regarding the Nephite fortifications because the ones he will be confronted with are much more elaborate than the ones the survivors of his army had seen. Mormon is very conscious of this…