What Nephi wants to see is a vision of a tree of life which was apparently situated near a large and spacious field, not a mountain. (It is worth noting that of Abraham, God said, "I know him, . Just as she was "exceedingly fair and white," "most beautiful and fair above all other virgins," so was the tree's beauty; and the whiteness thereof did exceed the whiteness of the driven snow." January 20–26 1 Nephi 11–15 “Armed with Righteousness and the Power of God” Read 1 Nephi 11–15 with the children you teach in mind, and record any impressions you receive. Therefore, whatever knowledge we may have, we still need to have faith to see us through those puzzling moments. In 2 Nephi 11, Nephi discusses his motivation for including the Isaiah chapters. 8. . Nephi then sees that after she was carried away in the Spirit for a time, she once again appears bearing a child in her arms. He saw his earthly ministry and its culmination in the death of the Savior (see 1 Nephi 11:26-32). Here are the twelve sons of Israel surrounding Jacob, or Israel. Come, Follow Me Daily Study Guide for the week of January 13-19, 2020 covering 1 Nephi 8-10. John W. Welch Notes. It certainly qualifies as "an exceedingly high mountain." When Judas led the soldiers and the high priests to the Garden of Gethsemane and betrayed him with a kiss, Jesus could have spoken a single word and leveled the entire city of Jerusalem. the goddess too is identified with the date palm in Assyrian texts. The location of Jabel al-Lawz in relation to Wadi Tayyib al-Ism. "My people have committed two evils," the Lord said anciently, for "they have forsaken. Was Lifted up upon the Cross and Slain for the Sins of the World: Donna Nielsen notes that the last night that Christ spent with his disciples was during Passover, a beautiful feast celebrated by the Jews to commemorate their deliverance from Egypt, slavery, and death. The great distinction between the religion of the Patriarchs and that of their neighbors was their belief in the basic morality of God. There is no reference to Baal in Genesis. In a bittersweet comment on this loss of scripture, Maxwell writes that one cannot help but wonder what might have happened if, when Herod inquired of the scripturalists of his time concerning Jesus, those advisers had had access to or understood the fulness of the scriptures. ), "The gigantic, global collapse that is yet to come will not be that of a failing stock market, but the fall of hardened mind-sets and collective pride when it all finally tumbles. If further information or instruction relating to her is to be made public, my conviction is that this will come through revelation to the proper authorities, not through agitation nor even, in any significant way, through scholarship. the Son of the everlasting God was judged of the world; and I saw and bear, they were gathered together to fight against the apostles of the Lamb, the great and spacious building was the pride of the world; and it fell, The birth of the Lamb of God to a virgin from Nazareth (v. 13-21), The Savior going forth among the children of men (v. 24), He ministers in power and great glory (v. 28), 12 apostles and the ministering of angels (v. 29-30), The Lamb of God heals the sick and afflicted (v. 31), He is judged of the world and crucified (v. 32-33), Large and spacious building=pride of the world (v. 35), The multitudes of the earth gather to fight against the apostles of the Lamb (v. 34-35), Mist of darkness=temptations of the devil (1 Ne 12:4,17), Vapor of darkness covers the Americas for 3 days (1 Ne 12:5), They are righteous up to the fourth generation (12:12), They fall prey to the temptations of the devil and are destroyed (12:17-20), Wickedness and destruction of the Nephites (12:19-20), Nephites destroyed for their wickedness (12:19-20). [Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet, The virgin whom thou seest is the mother of the Son of God (. 1 Nephi chapter 1 is among the most read passages in the Book of Mormon simply because its first, but it deserves far more credit than that which accrues to it for being, as it were, page one on the small plates. The great and abominable church, Columbus/Gentiles in the promised land, plain and precious things are taken out of the Bible. and remained there for a full century, until King Hezekiah removed it in 725, After an absence of 27 years, however, Asherah was back again in the Temple: This time it was King Manasseh who replaced her in 698, . Smith 23-30). He is told by the prophet, "that tree, O king, is you" (Daniel 4:10-22). . (Heroes from the Book of Mormon, p. But the Jerusalem Bible translation says that "Yahweh appeared to him at the Oak of Mamre. (1 Ne. For example, the last four chapters of 1 Nephi deal with the future of Nephi’s people in their new land of promise.4 The order of the topics in these four chapters, 1 Nephi 19-22, tightly follow the order the same four stages found in 1 Nephi 11–14 and 2 Nephi 6. for ever,," as recorded in Isaiah 9:6-7. In John 1:1-14 we find set forth the doctrine of the divinization of "the Word" (or Logos). In the context of this scripture, it means Jehovah's voluntary surrender of his exalted status as a pre-mortal God to be born into mortality in the most humble of circumstances. It Is the Son of God (Potter): While living in the valley of Lemuel, Lehi had a dream in which he saw a tree with fruit that was "most sweet, above all that [he] ever before tasted" (1 Nephi 8:10-12). the Tree of Life: In Lehi's dream, at the end of the strait and narrow path were both the tree of life and a "fountain of living waters" (1 Nephi 11:25). (1 Nephi 11:21) Strikingly, though the vision of Mary seems irrelevant to Nephi's original question about the significance of the tree--for the tree is nowhere mentioned in the angelic guide's response--Nephi himself now replies that, yes, he knows the answer to his question. Unless and until revelation dictates otherwise, I believe that we are to stay within the bounds set by our canonical scriptures on this matter. 1 Nephi 14:7 A work which shall be everlasting The new and everlasting covenant is the fullness of the gospel, the aggregate of all covenants and obligations which lead to salvation (see D&C 1:22; 39:11; 45:9, 49:9; 66:2; 133:57; Doctrines of Salvation 1:156). And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely' (Rev 22:1-2,17). The images used by the Patriarchs and Prophets during the early period of the Old Testament were thought of in the same way . . Over and over in the writings on the small plates of Nephi, these four elements provide the outline for Nephite prophecy. The angel then says to Nephi: "Behold the Lamb of God, yea, even the Son of the Eternal Father!" It told us all sorts of things about the Jews we didn't know before. This verse describes the apostasy following Christ's ministry in Jerusalem. The vastness of space is such that normal measurements do not suffice to describe the distances between stars and galaxies. A 10th-century cultic stand from Ta'anach, near Megiddo, features two representations of Asherah; first in human form and then as a sacred tree. the goddess too is identified with the date palm in Assyrian texts. Parpola once more provides us with insight: "In Assyrian imperial art, the goddess nurses the king as a baby or child . 1, pp. See John W. Welch, Illuminating the Sermon at the Temple and Sermon on the Mount: An Approach to 3 Nephi 11–18 and Matthew 5–7 (Provo, UT: FARMS, 1999). SUGGESTIONS: - Follow along with your scriptures (when you can). . Copyright © 2020 Alan C. Miner. If Lehi had seen in his dream the trees that surrounded him, palm trees growing in the watercourse of wadi Tayyib al Ism, located within the high Hijaz mountains it would be hard to think of a location that more closely fit the classic Near Eastern cosmic tree motif. Nephi was caught up into an exceedingly high mountain where a grand vision was unfolded before him, and he saw not only what his father had seen but also much more. He didn't do it for him; he did it for us. the son of the divine king, [who] sets out from his celestial home to fight the evil forces that threaten his father's kingdom. (JST Matthew 3:6), As presented in the JST, it is not Bethlehem, but Jesus who is the prince; and he is not simply a Governor come to rule, but the Messiah come to save Israel. Moroni gives us a pattern for pondering. VII e-da-bar-ki, Temple of the World," wherein da-bar is equated with the Hebrew (and rarely Phoenician) dabar, "word." I Knew That It Was the Spirit of the Lord; and He Spake unto Me as a Man Speaketh with Another: To gain a sound gospel understanding, the truth seeker must determine in each scriptural passage what is meant by such titles as Spirit, Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Lord, Spirit of God, Spirit of Truth. . It is found in the twenty first chapter of Genesis, where it is stated that Abraham planted an grove, and called upon Jehovah the Everlasting El. In the case of the Patriarchs, it was customary to set up a sacred stone pillar near a sacred tree and to consecrate it with oil.266 Often this would be in some high place on a hill or in the mountains. In Israelite tradition the bull formed part of the divine throne. (Robert J. Matthews, "A Greater Portrayal of the Master," Ensign, March 1983, p. 9). . [George Potter & Richard Wellington, Discovering Nephi's Trail, Chapter 1, p. 5, Unpublished], 1 Nephi 11:1 I was caught away . I was caught away . For the inhabitants of ancient Arabia the palm also represented a king who did the same. (1 Nephi 11:18) But she was the perfect mortal typification of the mother of the Son of God. Moreover, if Moses was a type of Christ, then Jesus possibly visited the site of Sinai during his sojourn in the wilderness. 9, Num. According to the Popol Vuh, (a modern translation of the ancient history of the Quiche' Maya of Guatemala): "These are the names of the divinity, arranged in pairs of creators in accord with the dual conception of the Quiche': Tzacol and Bitol, Creator and Maker, . "And all the sons of Levi rallied to him. . The condescension of God in 1 Nephi 11 is the angel’s attempt to show Nephi how God manifested himself to the Jews of 33 A.D. When recording his sweeping vision found in 1 Nephi 11–14, Nephi appears to have framed it with an inclusio. ., are referred to in contemporary texts as "palm trees" or "mes-trees growing along abundant watercourses." "and of the people about three thousand men perished that day."294. [Daniel C. Peterson, "Nephi & His Asherah," in, , FARMS, Vol. . Still others have thought that the Bull symbolizes power and strength. 1 Nephi 12. It was a belief in a certain moral code of right and wrong which God had given to His children, but which through varying degrees of degeneration, other cultures had lost sight of.276, Thus, during the 400 years that passed between the Patriarchs and the time of Moses, the land of Canaan went through several significant religious changes. They are filled with truths of eternal importance, often packed so closely together, that you can't get all the meaning on the first pass. It is a remarkable illustration of the truth stated thus by St. Paul: 'The Spirit itself maketh intercession for us...according to the will of God.' I Also Beheld the Prophet Who Should Prepare the Way before Him: I . into an exceedingly high mountain (Illustration-Potter): Richard and George at Arabian candidate for mount Sinai, eight miles south of Jabel Al-Lawz. After rehearsing the whole history, Patai summarized his findings as follows: We find that the worship of Asherah, which had been popular among the Hebrew tribes for three centuries, was introduced into the Jerusalem Temple by King Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, in or about 928, Her statue was worshiped in the Temple for 35 years, until King Asa removed it in 893, It was restored to the Temple by King Joash in 825, . (Ensign, Dec. 2001, 18-20), "Will there be perplexities? The latter "assumption" is based on the story that the apostles, three days after her interment, found the tomb empty. 1, pp. 66-84. But the Jerusalem Bible translation says that "Yahweh appeared to him at the Oak of Mamre.". [George Potter & Richard Wellington. Perhaps we should "look and behold the condescension of God" in our own lives. There is very little information in the New Testament concerning Mary. 80, 82-83] [See the commentary on 2 Nephi 4:26], According to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., Hendrickson Publishers), the term "condescension" or "condescension of God" is not found in the Bible. he called out. [Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet, Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. In both Sumerian and Babylonian mythology, it is expressed allegorically with the image of a tree planted upon earth by the mother goddess, Inanna/Ishtar. 1 Nephi 11. . There is a reason why scriptures require more than a casual reading. In 1988 Wall Street millionaire Larry Williams and ex-police officer Bob Cornuke illegally entered Saudi Arabia to visit the mountain. Nephi's tone here shows that he is overwhelmed and astonished that the Savior of the world could be judged by wicked men. "I spake unto him," says Nephi, "as a man speaketh; for I beheld that he was in the form of a man, yet nevertheless I knew that it was the Spirit of the Lord; and he spake unto me as a man speaketh to another." An evidence that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the true church is the fact that the ancient Americans also believed in a Mother in Heaven. [Allen H. Richardson, David E. Richardson and Anthony E. Bentley, 1000 Evidences for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Part Two-A Voice from the Dust: 500 Evidences in Support of the Book of Mormon. Sinai (Ex 3:1-2), Ezekiel was shown his vision of the celestialized city of Jerusalem after he was caught away in the spirit into a very high mountain, (Ezek 40:1), Christ chose to pray on a mountain to get away from his followers (Matt 14:23), and finally the Transfiguration happened on a high mountain apart (Matt 17:1). Why would Nephi see a connection between a tree and the virginal mother of a divine child? The First Book of Nephi: His Reign and Ministry (/ ˈ n iː f aɪ /), usually referred to as First Nephi or 1 Nephi, is the first book of the Book of Mormon and one of four books with the name Nephi. Mary holds the baby Jesus Artist: Liz Lemon Swindle. Clearly, the answer to his question about the meaning of the tree lies in the virgin mother with her child. I suspect, furthermore, that it was such garbling and corruption that impelled the Deuteronomistic reformers, whom I believe to have been inspired, to oppose and suppress the veneration of Asherah, just as they opposed and suppressed the veneration of the Nehushtan of Moses. "273 Asherah was the wife of El and the primordial mother of all gods and men and all this came about through the power of procreation. And he said to them, This is the message of Yahweh, the God of Israel, Gird on your sword, every man of you, and quarter the camp from gate to gate, killing one his brother, another his friend, another his neighbor" . [Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet, Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon. "302 [Daniel C. Peterson, "Nephi & His Asherah," in Journal of Book of Mormon Studies , FARMS, Vol. In Nephi 11, verses 6-7 also make it clear that the "Spirit of the Lord," in this passage, is not the pre-mortal Christ. This tradition corresponds to the religious ideas current at that time in the Near East. 16-18] [See the commentary on 1 Nephi 13:40]. Furthermore, she preached the gospel of the Redeemer "to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem" (Luke 2:36-38) [George Reynolds and Janne M. Sjodahl, , Vol. [Jeffrey R. Holland, "The Hands of the Fathers," in the Ensign, May 1999, pp. The opposite interpretation was espoused by B.H. If one drinks from the fountain of living waters, one will live forever with the blessings of eternal life. I believe we know something of His condescension-as God the Creator, Redeemer, Exemplar. The Encyclopedia Judaica makes the following statement: "The rabbis report that the golden calf was made as a replica of the bull in the divine throne. The chapter headings of 1 Nephi 11, 12, 13, and 14 give an idea of the sweeping nature of Lehi’s and Nephi’s visions. Only in our own century have we begun to sense the vastness of the universe. Jesus offered living water to the woman of Samaria at the well. Invite Sharing Show a picture of Lehi’s vision of the tree of life, and invite the children … In other terms, the Word, the Logos, was already divinized in third-millennium Canaan . I suspect, furthermore, that it was such garbling and corruption that impelled the Deuteronomistic reformers, whom I believe to have been inspired, to oppose and suppress the veneration of Asherah, just as they opposed and suppressed the veneration of the Nehushtan of Moses. Nephi's Vision. 1 Nephi 7. ", Bearing this in mind the importance of Asherah worship to the Patriarchs and their wives is easy to understand, for it wa believed among Hebrews that Asherah "promoted fertility in women and facilitated childbirth.". . Peterson believes that Nephi's vision reflects a meaning of the "sacred tree" that is unique to the ancient Near East, and that, indeed, can only be fully appreciated when the ancient Canaanite and Israelite associations of that tree with the worship of Asherah (the Mother Goddess) are borne in mind. Why would Nephi see a connection between a tree and the virginal mother of a divine child? ", Other ancient American documents speak of a heavenly Father and Mother of Life. And if we carried that same scale on to the edge of the known universe, we would have a stack of paper thirty-one million miles high or a stack of paper that would stretch from the earth nearly one third of the way to the sun. It is significant that El and Asherah were thought of in the same light as Eloheim and wife are in Mormon theology, and as it turns out this is with good reason, for Eloheim is the plural expression of the divine name El, and throughout the Old Testament, El and Eloheim alternate interchangeably as different names for the same great God. Moses meets with God on a mountain, which serves as a sacred symbolic place. Upon Joshiah's death eleven years alter (609 B.C. The virgin birth has been doubted by many skeptics. To be sure it was the image which inspired their transgression, but it was what Moses found them doing when he came down from the mount which was so abhorrent. 16-18, 22]. A nontrivial number of readers have wondered and continue to wonder why he did such a thing, but this mystery is actually at least somewhat solvable because he told us. [Brant Gardner, "Brant Gardner's Page, "http://www.highfiber.com/~nahualli/LDStopics/1Nephi/ 1Nephi11.htm, pp. Rather than being a sign of weakness, the recurrence of Book of Mormon events that were foreshadowed in biblical history, is yet another witness that the Book of Mormon is a true and accurate history. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate" (Romans 12:16). [E. Charles Pyle, "Review of 'The Book of Mormon Vs. the Bible (or Common Sense),'" http:\\. " (Ensign, Dec. 2001, 18). "290, It is [Fred Collier's] opinion that the real cause for offense on this occasion is to be found in the nature of the celebration which they held the following day in honor of Yahweh/El. According to McConkie and Millet, the words of Jehovah through his servant Jeremiah are particularly insightful in identifying Christ himself with this joint symbol. Several Sumerian kings of the Ur III dynasty, about 2000. Isaiah 9:6; Mosiah 15:4; Alma 11:39)      [Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet. Mary is his mother. 1, p. 7], Terryl L. Givens notes that in the 1837 edition, the words "Son of" were inserted before the Deity title in four verses: 1 Nephi 11:18, 11:21; 11:32, and 13:40. Perhaps we should ponder why God became Man. "...And so the angel said to Nephi, 'Knowest thou the condescension of God?' Why is that? El was "the father of the gods" and the "father of men," the "creator of created things," the "father of years," He was conceived of "as an old man with a white beard." While Nephi pondered the words of his father, a vision was opened to him. Christ in the New World. Nephi sees the falling away of his posterity. "272 Bearing this in mind the importance of Asherah worship to the Patriarchs and their wives is easy to understand, for it wa believed among Hebrews that Asherah "promoted fertility in women and facilitated childbirth. Behold, my soul delighteth in the things of the Lord; and my heart pondereth continually upon the things which I have seen and heard.'" Richardson, Richardson and Bentley write that one of the "mysteries" of the gospel is that we have a Mother in Heaven. ", It is [Fred Collier's] opinion that the real cause for offense on this occasion is to be found in the nature of the celebration which they held the following day in honor of Yahweh/El. 1, p. 79], 1 Nephi 11:18 The virgin whom thou seest is the mother of the Son of God (Illustration): Nephi Sees the Virgin [Robert T. Barrett, Verse Markers, Book of Mormon, Vol. Here is the tree of life, and it's bearing all sorts of fruit. Fortunately, even in the King James translation a vestige of Asherah worship as practiced by the Patriarchs still remains. Though this concept is not mentioned in the Book of Mormon, it is an important principle of the eternal gospel that was taught in its fullness in ancient America. ), "There have been and will be times in each of our lives when such faith must be the bottom line: We don't know what is happening to us or around us, but we know that God loves us, and knowing that, for the moment, is enough." This imagery is ancient. Their exploits are recorded in. It is significant that Baal also took on this same royal symbol. Right over it is this tree of life with all the symbolism that is brought out by Nephi here. After the virgin birth, he was seen as the carpenter's son. that ancient Israel thought of the Ark of the Covenant. (Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, p. 285 - 286.). For personal and/or family study of the scriptures, geared towards 8 years old and older. ", It is this terse comment on the end which wants looking into. What is significant here is that anthropomorphic polytheism along with belief in a Father and Mother in Heaven was one of the most fundamental beliefs. Nephi Sees the Birth of Christ [Robert T. Barrett, And I looked and beheld the virgin again, bearing a child in her arms (. [Neal A. Maxwell, , pp. In 1 Nephi 11:21 mention is made of the "Lamb of God." "304, Other ancient American documents speak of a heavenly Father and Mother of Life. ), I was caught away...into an exceedingly high mountain, blessed art thou, Nephi, because thou believest, [the Spirit of the Lord] was in the form of a man...and he spake unto me as a man. For much of the world's history, man has had to accept these statements basically on faith, for as we look up in the heavens with the naked eye, we can see approximately six thousand stars. They all identified Jebal Al Lawz to be Mount Horeb (Sinai). [George Potter & Richard Wellington, I [Nephi] desire to behold the things which my father saw (, I desire to behold the things which my father saw (, A Comparison of Lehi's Dream and Nephi's Vision. The revelations of Nephi and of John have more in common, however, than merely the apocalyptic form, for Nephi’s vision (1 Nephi … Who can measure the worth of careful and deep reflection upon the things of God? One example of this is found in the beginning of the eighteenth chapter of Genesis. It is also possible, considering the fact that the small plates of Nephi were made some years after this vision, that the term "Lamb of God" became part of Nephi's vocabulary at this time, and was incorporated into his later description of his father's vision. [Alan C. Miner, Personal Notes], Archaeological excavations have revealed that although there were many languages and cultures which existed in the ancient Near East, their ideas about God and religion were incredibly alike--and this rule of thumb does not altogether except the Hebrews. 1 Nephi 13. . This change is clearly less than revisionist when one considers that in 1 Nephi and elsewhere, "Son of God" was already present as a common Book of Mormon formulation. Some important things to emphasize when teaching this material is to talk about and illustrate the tree. From then on, worship would take place completely void of any visual personification of a person. . 'I know that [God] loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things' (1 Ne. Self-proclaimed archaeologists Ron Wyatt and David Fasold visited the mountain in 1986 but were arrested shortly after their arrival. In the book of Daniel the king of Babylon dreams of a huge tree growing in the middle of the earth, its top reaching the sky. But would someone in Nephi's time and place have understood the association between a tree, probably a date palm, and the Son of God? The Dictionary defines condescension as the "'voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in relations with an inferior.' In the Qur'an we can read, "Seest thou how Allah sets forth a parable of a. Reference to the "heavenly bull" is found in very ancient Egyptian sources. 1 (2005): 70. (Dennis and Sandra Packard, "Pondering the Word," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, p. 51). [Matthew Roper, Book Review of Jerald and Sandra Tanner's, Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon. That this is so is still manifest in the fifth chapter of Genesis where the same words, "image" and "likeness" are used to describe the birth of Seth and the resemblance which he bore to his father Adam.262 On two different occasions the New Testament perpetuates this same tradition: first in the book of Luke where it states that Adam was the son of God just as Seth was the son of Adam (Luke 3:38); and then again in Acts where it is declared that "we are the offspring of God." According to Charles Pyle, until critics produce the original writings of all of the prophets of the Old Testament age, and prove, beyond all doubt that such is the case, they cannot make this claim! 1 Nephi 11:18 The Mother of the Son of God: The first edition of the Book of Mormon (1830) reads as follows: "Behold, the virgin whom thou seest is the mother of God, after the manner of the flesh." . What makes the scriptures different? . If we do this, we will have the truth manifested to us by the power of the Holy Ghost. Ascending a mountain to commune with God symbolizes an attempt to leave the world behind and draw nearer to the Lord. 1 Nephi 4. . In the most perfect sense of the word Asherah and El were the Fountain of Life and the ultimate symbol thereof.274, Yet the worship of Asherah became corrupt. Whenever the angel shows Nephi a portion of the dream Lehi saw, whether it is the tree or the rod of iron or the great and spacious building, he next shows him an event in the history of the world which exemplifies the interpretation. (B.H. We have visited the site and can verify much of what Williams has described. 13-16, Unpublished] [See the commentary on 1 Nephi 8:10; 11:21], According to McConkie and Millet, the expression "Spirit of the Lord" is used some forty times in the Book of Mormon, and almost without exception it has reference to the Holy Ghost or to the Light of Christ. 1 Nephi 11:7 The Tree . Prophets have often communicated with the Lord from the mountains. Enoch stated the same idea in a much more dramatic form when he said the following: "And were it possible that man could number the particles of the earth, yea, millions of earths like this, it would not be a beginning to the number of thy creations" (Moses 7:30). Richardson, Richardson and Bentley write that one of the "mysteries" of the gospel is that we have a Mother in Heaven. Presumptively it is the Spirit Christ ministering to Nephi much as he did to the Brother of Jared, for such is in keeping with the principle of advocacy, intercession, and mediation, the principle that all personal appearances of Deity to man since the fall of Adam, excepting appearances of the Father and the Son together, have been appearances of Christ." 173-174]. . 9, Num. Of course, Mary, the virgin girl of Nazareth seen by Nephi, was not literally Asherah. 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