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Mosiah 8:21 · Mosiah 17:17

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 8:21
"they are as a wild flock which fleeth from the shepherd, and scattereth, and are driven, and are devoured by the beasts of the forest"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 17:17
"driven and scattered to and fro, even as a wild flock is driven by wild and ferocious beasts"

INTERPRETIVE, weigh-this. The phrase 'wild flock' occurs at exactly these two verses in the corpus to date, with driven/scattered/devouring-beasts traveling alongside in both. The offered reading: Limhi, who rehearses the slain prophet's death among his people's griefs (7:26) and whose captain invoked 'the words of Abinadi' (20:21), re-voices the martyr's sentence, widened from 'ye' to 'the children of men' (8:20) and turned from threat to lament. Against: the image components are common prophetic furniture; wording differs at every point except 'wild flock'; text nowhere says Limhi heard or read Abinadi's last words (Alma, the one recorded transcriber, fled with them, 17:4).

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