Tag: Ether

Ether 1Jared and his brother were obviously both righteous men. The brother of Jared must have been the spiritual leader of their family – the patriarch within their line I would guess.

Ether 15The promise was made to Coriantumr because the Lord knew that he would feel the pain of not repenting – Shiz would have been to callous to feel that even if he lived to kill Coriantumr. Part of me thinks that Coriantumr killed Shiz because at that point there were no people to save…

Ether 14Shiz called off the battle after he thought that he had won but Coriantumr recovered. I realize now how the Lord would likely have given the kingdom to Coriantumr if he had repented. Shared took the throne and was killed by his high priest, who was killed in turn by Lib all while Coriantumr…

Ether 13The scenes of destruction among the Jaredites must have seemed very familiar to Moroni who had witnessed the same kind of endless war among the Nephites before they were destroyed, and probably among the Lamanites after the Nephites were no more.

Ether 12I think that Moron I spoke so much about the necessity of faith preceding miracles because he had seen a people without faith and had seen the miracles that were manifest to the few – and for much of his life the only – who still had faith. He must have longed to live…

Ether 11I wonder how many people who have posterity have had their line of posterity utterly disappear? Jared and his brother did. I’m sure there are few who have had so many generations of progeny who have had their entire line of descendants destroyed. They may even have more generations after them than Adam to…

Ether 10There seems to be a different dynamic in the land when all the people live under a single government. The highs seem higher and the lows lower. Because of the lack of outside opposition there is a lower degree of internal stability.

Ether 9I had forgotten how many terrible thinks Akish had done. Plotting to kill Omer, later killing Jared (in public and by the same plots), killing his own son by starvation, and leading a people into such wickedness that they would destroy themselves down to 30 people in one generation – probably within a few…

Ether 8For some reason i had never before paid attention to the fact that we are told that Jared and his brother brought records from the old land to the new land. also, the cunning of the daughter of Jared – she picked Akish because she already knew that he would do what she told…

Ether 7I wonder if we got this distant review of the Jaredites because that is all the history that Moroni had access to or if it was because he was not personally familiar with them, or if it was meant as a review to reinforce the pattern of the Nephites – showing that the law…