Nevertheless, the people began to harden their hearts, all save it were the most believing part of them, both of the Nephites and also of the Lamanites, and began to depend upon their own strength and upon their own wisdom, saying:
“Some things they may have guessed right,
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_but behold,
_we know that all these great and marvelous works
_cannot come to pass, of which has been spoken.”