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D&C 116:1 · Daniel 7:9

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 116:1
"it is the place where Adam shall come to visit his people, or the Ancient of Days shall sit, as spoken of by Daniel the prophet."
Old Testament Daniel 7:9
"I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow"

Shared words: the Ancient of Days

The revelation names its source - 'as spoken of by Daniel the prophet'. Divergences: tense - the vision reports what the seer saw ('did sit'), the revelation what will happen ('shall sit'); capitalization, 'Days' against 'days'; and the revelation supplies a location and an identification of the figure with Adam that the vision's verse does not. The vision's descriptive matter - garment, hair, throne, wheels - has no counterpart. 'Ancient of Days' stands at six distinct frozen verses in the corpus: Daniel 7:9, 7:13, 7:22, D&C 27:11, D&C 116:1, D&C 138:38. Daniel 7:9 is paired because it is the only vision verse in which the figure sits. D&C 27:11 and D&C 138:38 are each already registered against Daniel 7:9 - different verse pairs - and are disclosed. Minted asserted_by: source at the 2026-08-10 editorial review.

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