Ammoron closes with a discussion of authority, just as Moroni did, but it is a very different kind of authority. It is an authority of separation, and distance from his Nephite roots. Ammoron notes that he is lineally from Zoram. Even thought he and his brother had been part of the Nephite political world before their defection to the Lamanites, he declares that he was never really Nephite, but rather a Zoramite, and one who remembers the wrong done against Zoram by Nephi. Ammoron is now a “bold Lamanite.” This is a war that is justified by the ancient grudges from nearly six hundred years prior.
Textual: There is no chapter break at this point in the 1830 edition.