“Shall Confess Before God That His Judgments Are Just”

Brant Gardner

The textual base for this part of Abinadi’s discourse is: “Yea, Lord, thy watchmen shall lift up their voice; with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion” (Mosiah 15:29). From this verse he extracts the phrase “see eye to eye” and describes what they will be seeing. Of course, what they see is the resurrected Messiah who is the embodiment of salvation. The Messiah who brings Zion is the Messiah who will have brought salvation. This Messiah may sit in judgment precisely because such judgment flows from the salvation he has wrought.

Second Witness: Analytical & Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 3

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