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Alma 60:13 · Alma 14:11

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Book of Mormon Alma 60:13
"the Lord suffereth the righteous to be slain that his justice and judgment may come upon the wicked"
Book of Mormon Alma 14:11
"he doth suffer that they may do this thing, or that the people may do this thing unto them, according to the hardness of their hearts, that the judgments which he shall exercise upon them in his wrath may be just"

The slain-righteous theodicy, carried across genre: Moroni states as settled doctrine in his war-epistle (Alma 60:13) what Alma stated at the Ammonihah martyrdom (Alma 14:11). Both turn the death of the innocent into the ground of a just judgment on the killers; both add that the slain are received by God ('enter into the rest of the Lord their God' / 'receiveth them up unto himself, in glory'). Internal Alma-Alma pair, decades apart.

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