VERSE 11. I am unworthy to
glory of myself. The humility of Alma is shown in this one sentence. He
knew the Lord was with him yet he gloried not in himself. He testified to his people
that he was “unworthy” of the Lords’ confidence in making him to proclaim His Salvation.
They themselves, he implied, should glory in the blessings of the Lord, for He
had armed them “with righteousness and with the power of God in great glory.”
(1 Nephi 14:14) Alma took no credit not himself for the “plentiful harvest”
that the Lord had garnered, but in thanksgiving to the Great Giver of all good,
he praised his Maker, and offered homage to His holy name. (George Reynolds and
Janne M. Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 7 vols. [Salt Lake
City: Deseret Book Company, 1976], 2: 244)
