“Fountain of Filthy, Mist of Darkness; Large and Spacious Building, A Great and Terrible Gulf”

Ed J. Pinegar, Richard J. Allen

These symbolic expressions comprise the impressive range of metaphorical elements of evil and degeneracy depicted in Lehi’s vision. Sin and its suffocating effects, pride and its delusional intoxication, exclusion from the presence of God—all of these are forceful and dramatic articulations of the destructive nature of wickedness and the consequences of losing one’s grasp on the rod of iron.

Commentaries and Insights on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 1

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