Moroni 8:1 · Words of Mormon 1:1
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The compiler-close symmetry is typed structural / interpretive, not shared-phrasing. The two ends share NO distinctive verbatim run: only the proper names Mormon/Moroni and the ubiquitous I-plus-name self-label (which this page documents as corpus-wide formulaic in sections 1, 6, 9), neither a distinctive link. The connection is a parallel of editorial PRACTICE, not a restatement, so it is registered interpretive (weigh-this), per register precedent (cf. moro-nv-survivor-continuity's flag). The parallel: the corpus's editorial handoff opens and closes with the same compiler gesture -- a writer inserting a prior writer's material WHOLE into his own record, with a naming header. In Words of Mormon, Mormon finds Nephi's small plates and includes them entire ('I searched among the records… and I found these plates,' Words of Mormon 1:3; 'I shall take these plates… and put them with the remainder of my record,' Words of Mormon 1:6). In the book of Moroni, Moroni preserves his father Mormon's texts entire, each under a naming header (Moroni 7:1 the sermon; Moroni 8:1 the epistle, headed 'And on this wise did he write unto me, saying:'). The father-son pair is named at BOTH endpoints in reverse: Words of Mormon 1:1 'I, Mormon… into the hands of my son Moroni'; Moroni 8:1 'my father Mormon, written to me, Moroni'. The near-end is Moroni 8:1, over 7:1, for two reasons -- (1) 8:1 preserves a WRITTEN document whole (an epistle), the exact analog of Words of Mormon's preservation of a written record, whereas 7:1 transcribes oral preaching ('which he spake… as he taught them in the synagogue'); (2) Moroni 7:1 is already an endpoint in moro-fhc-capstone (Moroni 7:1 <-> Ether 12:28, faith-hope-charity.md), so anchoring on 8:1 keeps the records visibly distinct -- either verse yields a fresh verse-pair with Words of Mormon 1:1, so there is no collision, but 8:1 is cleaner. The far end is Words of Mormon 1:1, the only verse naming BOTH Mormon and Moroni in the father-son handoff ('into the hands of my son Moroni'), giving the tightest reversed-naming symmetry with Moroni 8:1; 1:2 continues the thought but names only 'my son' and turns to the survival-prophecy. Both quotes are verbatim single-verse substrings. Words of Mormon 1:2's prediction 'may God grant that he may survive them, that he may write somewhat concerning them' is fulfilled by Moroni's survival and writing (Moroni 1:1, 1:4) -- but the survivor-continuity leg is already moro-nv-survivor-continuity (Moroni 1:1 <-> Mormon 8:3) on moroni.md, cross-linked here.