“After this severe rebuke, Alma the loving father became Alma the teacher. He knew that ‘the preaching of the word had a great tendency to lead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else’ (Alma 31:5). So Alma taught Corianton. He spoke first of Christ” (Packer, “I Will Remember Your Sins No More,” 25).