The cursing follows the people who work iniquity. That cursing was pronounced upon the land, but the iniquity must come from people, not land. The curse is a fulfillment of Lehi’s prophecy about the land: “If iniquity shall abound cursed shall be the land for their sakes” (2 Ne. The second is that Yahweh caused a skin of blackness to come upon them. Two things happen to the Lamanites as a result of their “harden their hearts against him.” The first is that they are cursed. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them. It represents the commentary following the text introducing the phrase “skin of blackness” and analyzes the textual data to answer the question of meaning.Ģ1 And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. Gardner, Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 6 vols. The following is an excerpt from Brant A. What Does the Book of Mormon Mean by “Skin of Blackness”?
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