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Alma 60:36 · Alma 61:9

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Book of Mormon Alma 60:36
"I seek not for power, but to pull it down"
Book of Mormon Alma 61:9
"I, Pahoran, do not seek for power, save only to retain my judgment-seat that I may preserve the rights and the liberty of my people"

Shared words: for power

Both letters of one correspondence disavow power-seeking against the king-men — Moroni 'I seek not for power' (60:36, his stated close), Pahoran 'do not seek for power' (61:9, ninth of the reply's twenty-one verses; his close is 61:21) — a shared construction, not a shared verbatim run. The king-men are described as 'seeking for power' at 46:4 and 'seeking for power and authority' only at 60:17. Caution: 'power' is high-frequency in the war chapters; the weight rests on the shared disclaimer construction within a single exchange. Moroni renounces power 'to pull it down'; Pahoran qualifies with the one office the constitution authorizes. Internal pair.

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