Friday, August 28, 2020

Alma 36:16-17. Alma was racked with torment and harrowed up by the memory of his sins.

President Packer April 2001 Gen Conference. 

“Racked means ‘tortured.’ Anciently a rack was a framework on which the victim was laid with each ankle and wrist tied to a spindle which could then be turned to cause unbearable pain.

A harrow is a frame with spikes through it. When pulled across the ground, it rips and tears into the soil. The scriptures frequently speak of souls and minds being ‘harrowed up’ with guilt.

Torment means ‘to twist,’ a means of torture so painful that even the innocent would confess” (President Packer “The Touch of the Master’s Hand,” 22)