1 Ne 4:2 And the prophesies which he wrote, there are not many greater. Speaking of Joseph, who was taken into Egypt. What makes prophesy "great"? I suppose it could be the number of people it impacts. It could also be the level of involvement with Christ, although if that's the criterion, the prophesies he is referencing probably don't meet it - they're supposed to be about his seed. Maybe he just meant they were pretty specific to him and he mean that there were not many that more specifically involved him.
4:5 For Behold, I know that if ye are brought up in the way ye should go ye will no depart from it. This one has always bothered me a little. For one thing, it places blame for children's behavior entirely on teh parents and their parenting. For another, if you had to pick the best parent ever, who would it be? Lehi? Apparently not: he had two kids fall away while he was still alive. Abraham? Ishmael didn't turn out so well, did he? Joseph? Maybe, but I'd put my money on Heavenly Father himself as the paragon of fatherhood. I think it is fair to say that he brought up his spirit children in the way [they] should go and yet one third of them decided to depart from it.
Also, Lehi here is ignoring his own failures as as parent when he makes this affirmation. If it is true that he knows it, then it implies that he did not bring up Laman and Lemuel in the way they shoal go and if it is not true, then why is he taking the cursing from Laman and Lemuel's kids and putting it on Laman and Lemuel? He's the one who should get the curse. Either it's not true or he should be cursing himself and apologizing to L&L, not adding to their cursing. My vote is not true.
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