Just a couple of quick notes on today’s reading, Mosiah 7:
1) Here, you begin to see the narrative split into parallel accounts, as we learn about the people of King Limhi in the land of Lehi-Nephi. The book of Mosiah, which was dictated in just a few days, is quite complex. But, at the end of the book, all of the various narratives come together like the resolution of a chord in music. It’s very well done.
2) I’m struck by the promise in verse 31, that “If my people shall sow filthiness they shall reap the east wind, which bringeth immediate destruction.” The reference to the “east wind” seems to be a linguistic relic of this people’s origin in Palestine. The wind from the east of the land of Israel came in from the hot desert, from the area that is today Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, often bearing sand. It was quite different from the moisture-bearing breezes that were welcomed from the Mediterranean Sea to the west:
The hot, dry, dusty wind that’s called the sirocco may derive its name from the Arabic شرقي sharqī (“eastern”).
Posted from Rexburg, Idaho
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