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Helaman 12:1 · Helaman 4:13

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Book of Mormon Helaman 12:1
"we can see that the Lord in his great infinite goodness doth bless and prosper those who put their trust in him"
Book of Mormon Helaman 4:13
"because of this their great wickedness, and their boastings in their own strength, they were left in their own strength"

Interpretive: Mormon's editorial thesis (12:1, the Lord prospers those who trust in him) read as the law the narrative enacts -- the inverse case at 4:13, where pride's 'boastings in their own strength' issues in being 'left in their own strength' and 'therefore they did not prosper' (prosper/not-prosper and trust-in-him/own-strength are the verbal hinge). The 'own strength' element is a genuine internal phrasing chain (textual core): 4:13 'boastings in their own strength… left in their own strength' and 16:15 'depend upon their own strength and upon their own wisdom'; far end is Mosiah 11:19 'they did boast in their own strength' (live id mos-riches-boast, registered interpretive). What is offered to weigh, not asserted: that 4:13 is a deliberate enactment of the 12:1 thesis -- the abridgment's law-and-instance design is a reading.

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