Monday, February 15, 2016

1 Nephi 11:8

8  And it came to pass that the Spirit said unto me: Look! And I looked and beheld a tree; and it was like unto the atree which my father had seen; and the bbeauty thereof was far beyond, yea, exceeding of all beauty; and the cwhiteness thereof did exceed the whiteness of the driven snow.
    “Look!”
            -the punctuation increases the fervor, the urgency and the importance of the message.  Nephi was not just invited to “look…”, he was told, “Look!”.  Can we comprehend the difference between the two?

     “exceeding all beauty… exceed whiteness of snow.”
            -althouth he tries, Nephi does not have words sufficient to really explain the “superlativeness” of the tree.  It is beyond anything earthly.  It is an object belonging to a higher sphere.

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