What does it mean that the Gentiles will be nursing fathers and mothers?

Thomas R. Valletta

“From Nephi we learn that kings and queens are representative of the Gentiles among whom the house of Israel was scattered. We also learn that there is a temporal and a figurative or spiritual fulfillment of Israel’s ‘nursing’ by the Gentiles. [The temporal fulfillment] refers to various attempts, public and private, to assist the Lamanites in the afflictions that followed their scattering. … The [spiritual fulfillment refers to the] marvelous work among the Gentiles that would nourish the Lamanites [through] the restored gospel of Jesus Christ” (Nyman, “I Have a Question,” 61).

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