Jacob 3<\/a>, is relatively short, but hardly without interest.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
The promise of ultimate victory, vindication, and comfort given in verse 1 to innocent victims of treachery or betrayal is a comforting one, for example. If you\u2019ve ever felt betrayed by someone you had considered a\u00a0friend, you know how horrible it is.<\/p>\n
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But I\u2019ll focus on verse 5.<\/p>\n
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That verse\u00a0is striking for its flat declarations that at least some of the Nephites actually \u201chate\u201d the Lamanites \u2014 an inappropriate attitude and emotion for anybody claiming to be a disciple \u2014 and that the Lamanites are more righteous than the Nephites. \u00a0This isn\u2019t the last time that such a thing will be said, nor the last occasion on which it will be appropriate to say it. \u00a0The Book of Mormon isn\u2019t the simple black-and-white narrative that its critics (and even some of its believing but careless readers) believe it to be.<\/p>\n
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Notice, too, that, in verse 5, Jacob very explicitly calls the Lamanites his and his people\u2019s \u201cbrethren,\u201d and that, in verse 9, he commands his people\u00a0to cease their hateful actions and abandon their hateful attitudes toward the Lamanites \u2014 actions and attitudes that their own sinfulness renders brazenly hypocritical. \u00a0Racial animosity and bigotry are not acceptable for followers of the Gospel.<\/p>\n
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Finally, verse 5 seems to confirm the inference from chapter 2, mentioned in yesterday\u2019s installment of this rather perfunctory blog commentary, that a specific commandment had been\u00a0given, relatively recently, directly to Lehi prohibiting polygamy among his descendants (pending possible future instructions to the contrary).<\/p>\n
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