brought forth her firstborn son; and he called his name Jesus."—Matt. 1: 21, 24, 25. "And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb."—Luke 2: 21 Poor Gabriel! He evidently thought that he had the honor of naming the Son that was to be heir to David's throne. But alas, angels are doomed to deception and disappointment as well as men. Gabriel did not know that the Nephite angels, over here in America, were so far ahead of him! As we have seen, however, heaven is forgetful. The Lord, hence, had forgotten that those Nephite plates were "hid up in bumora." Or, it may be, the Lord had forgotten what was on those plates! "Mirabile dictu."
2. The second fact that we cite to show the falsity of the Book of Mormon is the fact that God utterly refused to afford those who had the Jewish Scriptures anything additional in order to their conversion. When the rich man, spoken of in the sixteenth chapter of Luke, realized that his eternal destiny was hopelessly fixed, he thought of and desired the salvation of his brothers, he is represented as saying to Abraham, "I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house; For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay father Abraham; but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."—Luke 16: 27–31. The rich man was like those Mormon preachers. He thought that God would afford man something outside of the divine arrangement in order to conversion. Remember, those Nephites claimed to have Moses and the prophets, then consider the following:
The testimony of Christ being true God did not afford those who had the Jewish Scriptures anything additional in order to
