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THE BOOK OF ALMA
THE SON OF ALMA
CHAPTER 36
  18 Now, as my mind caught hold upon this thought, I cried within my heart: O Jesus, thou Son of God, ahave mercy on me, who am bin the cgall of bitterness, and am encircled about by the everlasting dchains of edeath.

Footnotes
18a
Matt. 15: 22.
  22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
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IE in extreme remorse.
c
Jonah 2: 2.
  2 And said, I cried by reason of mine aaffliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of bhell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
Acts 8: 23.
  23 For I perceive that thou art in the agall of bitterness, and in the bbond of iniquity.
d
Prov. 5: 22.
  22 ¶ His own ainiquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the bcords of his sins.
2 Ne. 9: 45.
  45 O, my beloved brethren, turn away from your sins; shake off the achains of him that would bind you fast; come unto that God who is the brock of your salvation.
2 Ne. 28: 22.
  22 And behold, others he aflattereth away, and telleth them there is no bhell; and he saith unto them: I am no devil, for there is none—and thus he whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful cchains, from whence there is no deliverance.
Alma 12: 11 (10-11).
  11 And they that will harden their hearts, to them is given the lesser aportion of the word until they bknow nothing concerning his mysteries; and then they are taken captive by the devil, and led by his will down to destruction. Now this is what is meant by the cchains of dhell.
Moses 7: 26.
  26 And he beheld Satan; and he had a great achain in his hand, and it veiled the whole face of the earth with bdarkness; and he looked up and claughed, and his dangels rejoiced.
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