Chiasmus, or inverted parallelism, is well-known to most students of Mormon studies; this note explores one instance of it in Abraham 3:22–23: A Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; B and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones; C And God saw these souls that they were good, D and he stood in the midst of them, and he said: E These I will make my rulers; D’...
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