D&C 121:22 · D&C 54:5
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Intra-D&C pairing; the register lists the lower-numbered section as its second reference. The two share the pluperfect construction the older saying does not use - 'it had been better' against 'it were better' at Matthew 18:6 - which makes this pair closer to each other in grammar than either is to the saying both draw on. The earlier verse drops the millstone; this one keeps it. Counts are of distinct frozen verses in the corpus, derived by search at the time of writing.