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D&C 64:42 · Isaiah 11:10

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 64:42
"And she shall be an ensign unto the people, and there shall come unto her out of every nation under heaven."
Old Testament Isaiah 11:10
"there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious."

Divergences: the preposition - 'an ensign unto the people' against 'an ensign of the people' - and, more substantially, what is the ensign: in the prophecy a root of Jesse, a person-figure; in the revelation Zion herself, the antecedent of 'she' being the Zion of D&C 64:41. Registered as allusion on that ground. 'an ensign unto the people' stands at exactly one distinct frozen verse in the corpus; the prophecy's form 'an ensign of the people' at two, Isaiah 11:10 and 2 Nephi 21:10, which reproduces it.

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