3 Nephi 9:18 · Mosiah 16:9
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Abinadi's title for Christ (Mosiah 16:9), spoken of himself by the risen Lord. The formula 'the light and the life of the world' stands word-for-word; the only shift is 'I am' (3 Nephi 9:18 = the voice heard out of the darkness before the descent) for Abinadi's 'He is'. Fourth leg, same formula and same order, from the descending Lord's own mouth: 'I am the light and the life of the world; and I have drunk out of that bitter cup which the Father hath given me' (3 Nephi 11:11) — the bitter-cup half of 11:11 is registered on atonement.md, cross-linked only. Order note: Alma 38:9 had inverted the two halves to 'life and the light' (registered alma-life-light); the divine voice at 9:18 and 11:11 reads Abinadi's 'light and the life' order. Extends the alma-life-light chain (Alma 38:9 / Mosiah 16:9); the existing record already forward-flagged 9:18/11:11. Diction-provenance mechanism: Mosiah 17:4. Disclosed 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze: both orders are now carried in the newly frozen work. The formula in this record's order stands at seven corpus verses — the three record verses and D&C 12:9, 34:2, 39:2, 45:7 — and the inverted order at two, Alma 38:9 and D&C 11:28 ('I am the life and the light of the world'), spoken there in the first person as at 3 Nephi 9:18. So the inversion reported here as one verse's variation is a two-member corpus pattern. Reported as textual fact; nothing claimed about the order-swap's meaning.