What guidance is Jerusalem missing?

Thomas R. Valletta

“The Book of Mormon is replete with parallelisms. The poetic patterns serve, as they do in the Bible, to emphasize messages. … Sometimes the two alternating lines will repeat more than once: such a structure is called a repeated alternate parallelism … .

A The God of Jacob, yieldeth himself,

B according to the words of the angel,

A as a man, into the hands of wicked men, to be lifted up,

B according to the words of Zenock,

A and to be crucified,

B according to the words of Neum,

A and to be buried in a sepulchre,

B according to the words of Zenos”

(Parry, “Hebrew Literary Patterns in the Book of Mormon,” 60).

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