موروني — سرد

موروني — أحداث سردية

8 حدث سردي.

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For behold, their wars are exceedingly fierce among themselves; and because of their hatred they put to death every Nephite that will not deny the Christ.

يصف النص حروبًا داخلية شديدة بين اللامانيين، ويبيّن أن الكراهية تدفعهم إلى قتل كل نافي يرفض إنكار المسيح.

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and the multitude heard it not, but the disciples heard it;

يفرق النص بين الجمهور والتلاميذ: الحشد لم يسمع الكلام، بينما التلاميذ سمعوه، مما يخصص المعرفة لجماعة بعينها.

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and on as many as they laid their hands, fell the Holy Ghost.

يصف النص نتيجة الفعل الطقسي: حلول الروح القدس على من وُضعت عليهم الأيدي، بما يجعل الممارسة مرتبطة بأثر روحي مباشر.

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it grieveth me that there should disputations rise among you. For, if I have learned the truth, there have been disputations among you concerning the baptism of your little children.

الرسالة تنتقل إلى مشكلة داخل الجماعة: جدالات حول معمودية الأطفال الصغار، ويصفها مورمون بأنها أمر يسبب له غمًّا شديدًا.

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For behold, I have had a sore battle with the Lamanites, in which we did not conquer; and Archeantus has fallen by the sword, and also Luram and Emron; yea, and we have lost a great number of our choice men.

يصف الراوي هزيمة عسكرية أمام اللامانيين، مع سقوط قادة ورجال مختارين، مما يبرز خسارة جماعية ثقيلة.

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For according to the knowledge which I have received from Amoron, behold, the Lamanites have many prisoners, which they took from the tower of Sherrizah; and there were men, women, and children.

And the husbands and fathers of those women and children they have slain; and they feed the women upon the flesh of their husbands, and the children upon the flesh of their fathers; and no water, save a l…

ينقل الراوي خبرًا وصل إليه من شخص آخر عن أسرى أُخذوا من برج شيريزه، ثم يصف معاملة وحشية تشمل القتل والتجويع والإذلال.

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And again, my son, there are many widows and their daughters who remain in Sherrizah; and that part of the provisions which the Lamanites did not carry away, behold, the army of Zenephi has carried away, and left them to wander whithersoever they can for food; and many old women do faint by the way and die.

And the army which is with me is weak; and the armies of the Lamanites are betwixt Sherriz…

يصف الراوي انهيارًا اجتماعيًا شاملًا: أرامل مهملات، مؤن منهوبة، جيش ضعيف، وعجز القائد عن ضبط الناس، مع تصوير الفساد بوصفه شاملًا وغير قابل للوصف.

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And now I bid unto all, farewell. I soon go to rest in the paradise of God, until my spirit and body shall again reunite, and I am brought forth triumphant through the air, to meet you before the pleasing bar of the great Jehovah, the Eternal Judge of both quick and dead. Amen.

يختم موروني رسالته بوداع نهائي، ويصف موته القريب وانتظار القيامة والوقوف أمام الله الديان.