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  HEBREW WRITING STYLES IN THE BOOK OF MORMON Our attention needs to be heightened when we are presented with a Hebrew writing style used in the Old Testament, New Testament and The Book of Mormon, which is known as “Flag Phrases”. Repetition of them is a means for the authors to highlight the importance of the experience they are writing about, Flag phrases include repetition of words or phrases such as: “look”, “yea”, “behold”, “even”, “verily”, and “it came to pass”. There are many more, but for the sake of this exercise I will focus on three of these. “It came to pass” : It means something now exists, which did not previously or something new has happened or changed. According to latterdaysaintmag.com this phrase is one of the most significant in the Book of Mormon. In 3 Nephi 11 many verses are enriched with this phrase bringing pause and highlight the truths which follow. “ Verily, verily” : This was often used by Jesus Christ and means in truth or as a matter of fact, re...

 So, Tuesday 26 September 2023, saw me waging a two hour war with a hacker, trying to gain access to my Facebook account, and his eventual winning. So very frustrating. My fault, I stupidly shared a FB code, to another friend, who had been hacked, hereby giving the gremlin access to mine. Why, I cry in tears, so frustrated and sad to be losing about 15 years of history, as shared on the social media platform. With my holey memory, there were wonderful days when reminders of days past popped up. I am looking at this loss and thinking, what can I learn. There is a reason it is gone. What is it and how can I turn this into a positive? All I know right now is, I am missing it. Why? Not working, it was a touchpoint into the world outside my four walls here. Please note I did not say "the real world", because generally one cannot view what goes on there as real. But it is a welcome break from ones surrounding reality, when that reality is where you spend 24/24 hours, usually. The w...