Once again, today’s reading — Alma 16 — is simple and straightforward. And yet it’s also dramatic.
The people of Ammonihah, who boasted of their strength and claimed that their city was too powerful to be destroyed, were in fact annihilated and their city left not only a ruin but a byword. The catastrophe occurred so quickly that the Nephite armies were unable to save them.
Pride, arrogance, smug and overweening self-confidence, is a profoundly dangerous error.
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