Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Article Title
Book of Mormon Word Usage: “Seal You His”
Keywords
Book of Mormon, seal, Hebrew, records
Abstract
The verb to seal occurs some 34 times in the Book of Mormon. In most of these instances the verb takes (is followed by) a direct object referring to such things as the law, a book, records, words, an account, an epistle, an interpretation, revelation, the truth, and the stone interpreters. Twice, however, the verb to seal takes a person as a direct object that is qualified by a possessive pronoun:
Therefore, I would that ye should be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in good works, that Christ, the Lord God Omnipotent, may seal you his, that you may be brought to heaven, that ye may have everlasting salvation and eternal life, through the wisdom, and power, and justice, and mercy of him who created all things, in heaven and in earth, who is God above all. (Mosiah 5:15; emphasis added)
Recommended Citation
Gee, John
(2002)
"Book of Mormon Word Usage: “Seal You His”,"
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 22:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol22/iss1/4