He Did Go About Secretly: Additional Thoughts on the Literary Use of Almas Name

Mormon describes Alma the Younger's "go[ing] about secretly" to destroy the church that his father, Alma the Elder, had established (Mosiah 27:8–10), this as a narratalogical inversion of that period when Alma the Elder "went about privately" teaching the words of Abinadi and establishing a church "that it might not come to the knowledge of the king" (Mosiah 18:1–6). In Mosiah 27:10, Mormon subtly reworks Alma the Younger's autobiographical statement preserved in Alma 36:6, adding in the fo...