“Six Hundred Years”

The time of the Messiah’s first coming, like the precise time of his second coming in glory, was a set and fixed time; prophets knew and taught that in six hundred years the meridian of time-literally the midpoint in the sense of central events-would burst upon the world, and the Lord of Life would make his mortal appearance (cf. 1 Nephi 19:8; 2 Nephi 25:19).

“All Things… Are the Typifying of Him ”

To those of Adam’s day the Lord said: “all things have their likeness, and all things are created and made to bear record of me, both things which are temporal, and things which are spiritual; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth, and things which are in the earth, and things which are under the earth, both above and beneath: all things bear record of me” (Moses 6:63). This is particularly true of the law of Moses, which in all of its countless details was so given and devised as to testify of Christ and his redeeming sacrifice.

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 1

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