Redaction: Mormon must reconcile two dissonant facts: Helaman and his brethren are diligent and faithful in their preaching, but people are still falling into apostasy and civil rebellion. Mormon takes pains to explain that the fault is in the hearers, not in the preachers. The people were led away, in spite of the “exceedingly great care” of “Helaman and his brethren.” Amalickiah thus emerges as an even more sinister villain.