“The Flesh Becoming Subject to the Spirit, or the Son to the Father”
Here again we see Abinadi’s play upon words, his use of words with equivalent meanings-flesh, Son, and man on the one hand; Spirit, Father, and God, on the other. The man of flesh, the Son, the mortal Messiah-will subject himself to the will of the Spirit. So it is for all of the children of God-they must yield to the impressions of the Spirit and put off the natural man in order to become a Saint (see Mosiah 3:19).
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