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Moroni 1
Moroni, the last Nephite who will not deny the Christ, survives in hiding among a Lamanite nation given over to internecine war. He had expected his record to be finished; instead, compelled by a sense of future worth, he takes up the plates again. The audience he writes toward is not his contemporaries but his Lamanite brethren in a day yet to come — a remnant who will one day receive what he is now sealing up. The chapter is spare: a lone man, a covenant he will not break, and words preserved against a future moment appointed by the will of Jehovah.
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Now I, Moroni, after having made an end of abridging the account of the people of Jared, I had supposed not to have written more, but I have not as yet perished; and I make not myself known to the Lamanites lest they should destroy me.
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For behold, their wars are exceedingly fierce among themselves; and because of their hatred they put to death every Nephite that will not deny the Christ.
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And I, Moroni, will not deny the Christ; wherefore, I wander whithersoever I can for the safety of mine own life.
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Wherefore, I write a few more things, contrary to that which I had supposed; for I had supposed not to have written any more; but I write a few more things, that perhaps they may be of worth unto my brethren, the Lamanites, in some future day, according to the will of the Lord.
