“And Because of the Way of Deliverance of Our God”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet

Having himself seen his Redeemer and partaken of the goodness and blessings of the Atonement (2 Nephi 2:3; 2 Nephi 11:3),

Jacob, son of Lehi, began to “sing the song of redeeming love” (Alma 5:26), to exult in the mercies and condescensions of the great Jehovah, who would become Jesus Christ the Lord. His faith was perfect: he had partaken of the powers of the Mediator as though they were an accomplished fact, an act of the past.

That which follows in Jacob’s sermon was a theological trek into the realm of what might have been had there been no redemption, no Savior, no plan for the deliverance of earth’s pilgrims.

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 1

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