Moroni 7:16 · 2 Nephi 2:5
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Mormon's synagogue sermon names a universal moral faculty in nearly the terms Lehi used. Lehi states the endowment passively: 'men are instructed sufficiently that they know good from evil' (2 Nephi 2:5). Mormon names an active source for the same knowledge: 'the Spirit of Christ is given to every man, that he may know good from evil' (Moroni 7:16), which he calls 'the light of Christ' (7:18-19) and a judgment 'as plain… as the daylight is from the dark night' (7:15). The reading offered to weigh is that Moroni 7:16 supplies the MECHANISM Lehi leaves unstated -- the Spirit/light of Christ given to every man is HOW men come to be 'instructed sufficiently'. Second witness carried in-note: Alma 29:5, 'he that knoweth not good from evil is blameless; but he that knoweth good and evil, to him it is given according to his desires' -- the same universal endowment made the basis of accountability. The strongest counter: the good/evil-knowledge idiom (know/knoweth good from/and evil) is shared corpus vocabulary, not a distinctive echo -- it recurs at six Book of Mormon verses in the finite know/knoweth forms (2 Nephi 2:5; Alma 29:5 -- 'knoweth not good from evil'/'knoweth good and evil'; Helaman 14:31; Moroni 7:15, 7:16, 7:19) and at four more in the participial forms 'knowing good from evil' / 'knowing good and evil' (2 Nephi 2:18, 2:26; Alma 12:31; 42:3) — ten carriers in the record; the participial family runs wider still in the corpus, where frozen Genesis 3:5 and its Moses 4:11 twin both carry the Eden serpent's 'knowing good and evil' — which only strengthens this counter -- so the phrase-overlap alone proves nothing; and the two verses' vocabularies diverge -- Moroni 7:16 grounds the knowledge in an active endowment ('Spirit of Christ… given to every man'), while 2 Nephi 2:5 states it passively ('instructed sufficiently') and never names the Spirit or light of Christ. The text nowhere marks Moroni 7:16 as depending on Lehi's discourse; the mechanism-behind-the-charter reading is the interpretive step, not the text's stated claim. Voice: Moroni 7:15-19 is MORMON's sermon on faith, hope, and charity, which his son Moroni records (Moroni 7:1-2); the sermon itself is hosted on faith-hope-charity.md.