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D&C 82:18 · Acts 4:32

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 82:18
"to be cast into the Lord's storehouse, to become the common property of the whole church"
New Testament Acts 4:32
"And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common."

Interpretive, hedged: the resemblance is thematic, not verbal. Against reading them as one institution - the revelation's arrangement keeps individual stewardships with deeds attached (D&C 51:4) and permits unequal portions sized to want (D&C 82:17), where the older verses say only that possessions were common and say nothing of deeds or portions. The vocabularies do not overlap: 'common property' stands at exactly one distinct frozen verse in the corpus (D&C 82:18), 'all things common' at four (Acts 2:44, Acts 4:32, 3 Nephi 26:19, 4 Nephi 1:3), and no verse carries both. That the two aim at a similar end is visible; that they are the same institution is offered to weigh, not asserted.