“If Ye Will Bring Forth Your Weapons of War Behold We Will Forbear Shedding Your Blood”

Bryan Richards

Hugh Nibley

“Moroni was especially keen to watch for any slightest tendency of the enemy to give up; he was hypersensitive to that moment in the battle when the enemy falters, and the instant that came, when he sensed they were weakening, he would propose a stop to the fighting to talk things over (Alma 52:37-38). ‘We do not desire to be men of blood’ (Alma 44:1), he tells them on the battlefield; ’ye are in our hands, yet we do not desire to slay you… . We have not come … that we might shed your blood for power’ (Alma 44:1-3). ’We would not shed the blood of the Lamanites, if they would stay in their own land…’ (Alma 60:10-12).” (The Prophetic Book of Mormon, p. 523)

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