What is the principal editorial phrase Mormon used when he abridged the stories from the large plates of Nephi?

Thomas R. Valletta

The phrase “thus we see” is used by Mormon “over twenty times to insert moral conclusions in the sections he wrote or abridged (i.e., Alma 12:21; 24:19; 28:13; 30:60; 46:8; 50:19; Helaman 3:28; 6:34–36; 12:3). Moroni used the phrase only once (see Ether 14:25)” (Keller, “Mormon and Moroni as Authors and Abridgers,” 270–71).

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