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Page 588 of the Holy Qur-an

Page 588 of the copy of my Koran contains the following germane text (quoting in whole, minus Arabic script and commentary at bottom of the page):

I find several things fascinating about this passage in context of our considering symbolic connections between this page and the 588-page first edition of the Book of Mormon.

Here you have the classic scenario of a prophet come among the people and being rejected by them.  This story is told time and again in the Book of Mormon.  Indeed, the Book of Mormon itself was received in this manner by the world at large.

What is also fitting in this passage is the emphasis on the message of repentance and the grace offered by God.  That is very much consistent with the thrust of the Book of Mormon.

The statement "We see (in) thee nothing but a man like ourselves" is suitably paradoxical in light of what I have been saying here about how those who bring forth scripture are but brothers and sisters of a common family of God, who helped compose the words of scripture before coming to inhabit the earth.

What adds to the beauty of this irony is that this would be the wording of Arabic scripture in unintended yet still foreordained and angel orchestrated commentary on the Book of Mormon.

Page 588 Qur-an

In their own day, and among their own people, none of these men esteem now as larger-than-life and perhaps even superhuman seemed anything more than "just the boy next door."

Page 588 of The Complete Artscroll Siddur

I have a copy of a Jewish prayer book, which in their religion is akin to scripture, as it is a compilation of prayers and ordinances from scripture.

Page 588 is the "Shalosh Seudos: Askinu Seudasa" which is in regard to the three meals of the Sabbath.  According to the commentary on page 588,

"The three meals of the Sabbath symbolize the three Patriarchs; the three divisions of Scripture: Torah, Prophets and Hagiographa; and the three manna meals that were provided every Sabbath in the wilderness."

Page 588 Complete Artiscroll Siddur

How ironically fitting that this commemoration of the divisions of scripture would land on a page with the same number as the number of pages in the first Book of Mormon.

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