“I Came Unto My Own and My Own Received Me Not”

Brant Gardner

The phrase “I came unto my own,” refers to Christ’s mortal ministry in the Old World. The Nephite scriptures indicated that he should be born their, and his lineage, and therefore “his own,” were there. Christ declares that all scriptures that have predicted him have now been fulfilled. Of course these scriptures are those with reference to the first coming rather than the second, but even those scriptures that refer to the second coming have had a fulfillment in the destructions in the New World. In a very real sense, Christ appears in power in the New World, as the fulfillment of all of the predictions of the coming of the Messiah.

Multidimensional Commentary on the Book of Mormon

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