Talk:Jacob 1:1-5

I think anxiety in verse 5 is best thought of as care for, or, as [Merriam-Webster] indicates for anxious, ardently or earnestly wishing. Jacob, like Nephi in [1 Nephi 10:17] and the beginning of [1 Nephi 11], had strong desires to know the things of the Lord; he also desired to know, like many prophets, what would become of the people he loved--his people. Jacob's sermons indicate that he was successful in learning truths about the creation, the fall and the atonement.

It is more difficult to know the level of desire or anxiety one seems to need to attain these same insights.