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🗓️ 26 February 2024
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0:00.0 | Hello there. My name is Tyler Griffin and this is Scripture Study Insights by Scripture Central. |
0:06.8 | Today, Second Nephi chapters 20 through 25. I'm very excited to jump into these particular |
0:13.6 | chapters of our scripture study because this is where we finish off that last big chunk of Isaiah chapters, |
0:22.6 | and then Nephi begins to give us his commentary. |
0:26.8 | An important thing to remember is that our current edition of the book Mormon, |
0:32.5 | the way it has chapters and verses, that didn't exist until 187979 when Orson Pratt took the original |
0:41.3 | versions the 1830 edition where there were no chapters there were no verses the same way as |
0:48.3 | they are here they had much longer chapters no footnotes and he then broke them up into smaller chapters. |
0:56.4 | So it's important to remember that chapters 25, 26, and 27 are one complete chapter in the original Book of Mormon. |
1:08.0 | So this seems to be Nephi's follow-up commentary on what he just read to us, |
1:15.1 | or recorded on the plates rather, from Second Nephi chapters 12 through 24, that big huge |
1:22.4 | Isaiah chunk of chapters. So if you get into chapter 20, 21, 22, 23, and you're confused or you're |
1:32.4 | not making sense of it, the recommendation is keep pointing back to chapter 25, 26, and 27 and see |
1:40.8 | what Nephi says about it. In fact, in chapter 25, after he finishes this long section of Isaiah, |
1:51.0 | he says, now I Nephi do speak somewhat concerning the words which I have written, which have been spoken by the mouth of Isaiah. So he's going to give us this tutorial, this mentoring |
2:02.7 | guidance on what he hopes that we get. And in verse four, you'll notice he acknowledges the fact |
2:11.0 | that Isaiah is not your typical book of scripture as far as ease of understanding. And so he says, wherefore harken all my people, |
2:20.1 | which are of the house of Israel, and give ear unto my words, for because the words of Isaiah are not |
2:25.5 | plain unto you, nevertheless they are plain unto all those that are filled with the spirit of prophecy. |
2:33.7 | So, Nephi, in this chapter, he's giving us all of these keys to unlocking understanding in Isaiah. |
2:40.6 | Obviously the first is to understand the Jewish manner of prophesying in verse 1, 2, and 3, |
2:47.8 | recognizing that Isaiah doesn't speak in Greek literalism. He speaks more in Hebrew symbolism. |
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