Literary: In Nephi’s synopsis, he reiterates the necessity of baptism and the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and now ties in is earlier allusion to strait and narrow paths and gates. When Nephi is at his most literate, he is a master of tying together the pieces of his discourse, and this is an excellent example of Nephi’s art in speaking. To this point, he has brought the people to a literary point of baptism. To underline the point he is going to make, he places them on a “strait and narrow path.” This is no simple reference to his earlier remarks for the sheer sake of literary neatness, it is an important prelude to the next point - that the path implies a journey, and implies movement after the act of baptism.