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Mosiah 27:31 · 2 Nephi 9:44

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 27:31
"they shall quake, and tremble, and shrink beneath the glance of his all-searching eye"
Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 9:44
"I pray the God of my salvation that he view me with his all-searching eye"

Shared words: his all-searching eye

The phrase 'all-searching eye' is corpus-unique to these two verses. Both also set the eye in the same judgment scene: Jacob 'at the last day, when all men shall be judged of their works'; Alma 'at the last day, when all men shall stand to be judged of him'. Opposite valences: Jacob invites the eye with confidence ('I stand with brightness before him'); in Alma's teaching the wicked 'shrink beneath' its glance.