Tag: Isaiah 29
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"Formless," "functionless" and "dark" — the connection between the pre-creation state, covenant rebellion, and the desert
Mortality is a place of co-existing contrasts held in tension by the agency of man. This is not a coincidence, it is by design: 24 And there stood one among them that was like unto God, and he said unto those who were with him: We will go down, for there is space there, and…
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Precepts of God and precepts of men
The word, \’precept\’ does not appear in the Book of Mormon very often. In fact, all occurrences are found in 2 Nephi 27 and 28. In these chapters, Nephi is paraphrasing Isaiah 28:13 But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept and quoting Isaiah 29:13 their fear toward me is taught…
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Isaiah in 2 Nephi 26-27
I knew that Nephi is working Isaiah 29 into his text in these chapters, but I took a closer look and it\’s quite mind-blowing to see how this is done. In 2 Nephi 26, he starts quoting Isaiah 29:3. He continues all the way through to Isaiah 29:24, but with a lot of other text…
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Jesus quoting the Old Testament in 3 Nephi 21
An overview of Old Testament quotes in 3 Nephi 20 was given here. We see the same thing happening in 3 Nephi 21. Jesus quoting liberally from various Old Testament passages while mixing in his own words, or the words of his Father, as he puts it. We see many of the same trends as…
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Intertextual Connections between 2 Nephi 26 and 27 and Isaiah 29.
In his wonderful rebuttal of John Hamer’s crticism of the Book of Mormon, Stisa outlines intertextual connections between 2 Nephi 26 and 27 and Isaiah 29. I am including this excerpt here and linking it to my growing list of examples of intertextual connections in the Book of Mormon: In 2nd Nephi 26-27 for instance,…
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