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D&C 38:17 · Isaiah 66:1

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 38:17
"And I have made the earth rich, and behold it is my footstool, wherefore, again I will stand upon it."
Old Testament Isaiah 66:1
"The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?"

Registered as allusion, not shared phrasing: the shared run is two words and the two verses put the figure to opposite uses. Divergences: the prophecy uses the footstool to dismiss a building project where the revelation uses it to ground a land grant and a return, 'wherefore, again I will stand upon it', a clause with no counterpart in the prophecy. 'my footstool' stands at five distinct frozen verses in the corpus: these two, Abraham 2:7, Acts 7:49, and James 2:3, where the sense is a literal seat and unrelated.

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