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D&C 107:2 · Alma 13:14

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 107:2
"Why the first is called the Melchizedek Priesthood is because Melchizedek was such a great high priest."
Book of Mormon Alma 13:14
"Yea, humble yourselves even as the people in the days of Melchizedek, who was also a high priest after this same order which I have spoken, who also took upon him the high priesthood forever."

Shared vocabulary only: Melchizedek, high priest, an order, a superlative about the man (Alma 13:19: 'none were greater'). Reading Alma's account as the explanation behind the revelation's 'such a great high priest' is interpretive; neither text cites the other. Rendered on the page as a weigh-this callout, not asserted.

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