“My Soul Delighteth in the Scriptures”

K. Douglas Bassett

refer in this text to 1 Ne. 8:19; 19:23; Alma 17:2

“During the war in Vietnam, some of our men were taken prisoner and kept in nearly total isolation. Permitted no access to the scripture, they later told how they hungered for the words of truth, more than for food, more than for freedom itself. What they would have given for a mere fragment of the Bible or Book of Mormon that lay so idly on our shelves! They learned by hard experience something of Nephi’s feelings when he said: [2 Ne. 4:15-16].” (Spencer W. Kimball, Ensign, Sept. 1976, p. 4)

Latter-Day Commentary on the Book of Mormon

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