Counsel given to Brother Thomas B. Marsh:  (31:9-12)

• Be patient
• Meek
• Steadfast
• Do not revile
• Pray always
. Notice that about 4 and a half years later Bro. Marsh would become the first president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in this dispensation. Yet, in accordance with the Lord's way of revealing "line upon line," He said nothing about Bro. Marsh's future calling or personal challenges

Mission to the Lamanites (32:2)

. The Elders had to travel over 1,400 miles (or 2,240 kilometers)
. Isn't this meaningful?  Preaching to the Lamanites (the House of Israel) early in the history of the church (after 6 months)

A few people in the world still do good, but unfortunately their doctrines (or philosophies) are wrong (4; see also 2 Nephi 28:14)

. Corrupt minds = minds trained in doctrines and philosophies of men, not a necessary indication of evil disposition

. Like Elder Orson Pratt explained, many of those who persecuted the Lord's true church thought they were defending the pure gospel and kingdom of God (See "True Faith", contained in the "Lectures on Faith")

Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight (10)

. If we want a celestial kingdom, we'd better build not physical roads, but inlets so that the power and glory of God may flow into our character, our homes, our professional activities, our worshiping activities, etc.

The Book of Mormon and the scriptures are given for our instruction, but we will only get the most out of them by being enlightened by the Spirit of the Lord (16)

An allusion to the Parable of the Ten Virgins (17)

"One eternal round": the opposite of "temporary linearity" (1)

. There is nothing is new to the Lord; no situation is unexpected or unforeseen. God doesn't have to wait to see what is going to happen, because he knows the end from the beginning. He is not limited by mortal constraints imposed by an imperfect linear mode of thinking

Optional reading: Brother Martins' essay: "To Be Learned is Good": A Meditation on Priesthood and Time (2017)

To become one in Christ (2)

. To become a full participant in the divine nature, biosphere, or macrocosm. In other words, to fully partake of the powers of life that emanate from the presence of God (i.e. the light of Christ at full luminance, or intensity), and experience the following consequences:
 
. Know God's thoughts and experience his feelings just as he himself knows and experiences them
. To have (or to produce) through our own free agency those same thoughts and feelings ourselves

The weak things of the world: the unlearned and despised (13)

. These terms are another heritage of the saints in any dispensation. That means that in our days we have a perhaps atypical situation, since collectively we have a high level of educational attainment

. However, the Lord could also be referring to what people say about our young and usually inexperienced full-time missionaries

Thrash the nations

. Thrash: to separate the seeds of from the husks and straw by beating; to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip; to defeat decisively or severely.

Heavens to shake (24)

. See class notes for D&C 21:6

Zion to rejoice upon the hills (24)

. The hills were the places where the Lord manifested himself to his prophets when temples were not available

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