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And I looked and beheld the virgin again, bearing a achild in her arms.
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And the angel said unto me: Behold the aLamb of God, yea, even the bSon of the Eternal cFather! Knowest thou the meaning of the dtree which thy father saw?
-the
advent, the mission and the person of Jesus Christ, the Son of God is the
literal personification and representation of the tree of life. The mission and person of the Savior –God
made flesh- is the love of God. It is
the thing that is most pure, most desireable, most sweet and most brilliant. We do not really comprehend the majesty of the
Savior. He is the center, the absolute
meaning and facilitator of mortal and eternal life.
“Knowest thou
the meaning of the tree”
-finally
after showing Nephi the individuals involved and the circumstances around the
birth of the Savior into the world, the angel asks the question as if following
up to make sure Nephi did not miss the point:
so, is it now evident what the meaning of the tree is?
-what
would my answer be? What do I understand
to be the meaning of the tree particularly after the prompts –the particulars
of the vision- that the angel just gave…
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