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The Law and the Word of the Lord

by Sterling D. Allan
Published in Greater Things October 24, 1992
24 pages, typeset

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p. 3 - Introduction - "a ten-minute talk I wrote in which I felt a profound outpouring of the Lord's inspiration"
p. 4 - Diagram of chiastic & parallel structures.
p. 5 - Normal Text
p. 7 - Triple Parallel of whole talk (download <PDF> <WP.zip>).  First third parallels the second third with 50 consecutive matching points.  The second third parallels the third third of the text, also with 50 consecutive matching points.
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p. 13 - Main Chiasm of entire talk.  First focal point, regarding great division: "all mankind will either belong to the church of the Lamb of God or they will belong to the church of the devil."  Second focal point, "the word of the lord deals with individual salvation..., the law of the Lord deals with the salvation of nations."
p. 17 - Substructure - smaller chiasms and parallels spanning entire talk.
p. 21 - Four-way Rhetorical Link - Comparing wording of D&C 103:7,8,9 and III Nephi 16:15 and Daniel 7:18,19,21,23 and III Nephi 20:16,19.
p. 22 - Additional Chiasms within talk.  Focal point A, "We stand at the brink of the fulfillment of this prophecy."  Focal point B, "These same factors laid at the root of a division that occurred among the Nephites.  They too had come to dispose the word of God.  They had also cast away the laws of Mosiah, which hold remarkable similarities to the Constitution of the United States."

 

bullet See also

Background behind writing and non-delivery of talk

Main 'Law and Word' talk chiasm in Script (1997)

Essay > Will the Gentiles Also Look Beyond the Mark?  
(2/28/92) Expounds the thesis that the Mormons/Christians are today where the Jews were at the time of Christ.

 

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