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D&C 106:4 · 1 Thessalonians 5:2

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 106:4
"the coming of the Lord draweth nigh, and it overtaketh the world as a thief in the night—"
New Testament 1 Thessalonians 5:2
"For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night."

Shared words: as a thief in the night

Divergences: the epistle's subject is 'the day of the Lord', the revelation's 'the coming of the Lord'; the epistle states what the hearers already know, the revelation states the fact directly and adds 'draweth nigh'. The object overtaken is supplied by the revelation ('the world') and is absent from the epistle's verse. 'as a thief' stands at twelve distinct frozen verses in the corpus, of which 1 Thessalonians 5:2 and 5:4 and D&C 106:4 and 106:5 are the two adjacent pairs; the fuller run 'as a thief in the night' narrows the field, and the epistle verse is paired because it alone carries that run alongside a coming.