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Compound In One
Progression

"If things were compound in one, there would be no other"

"To dream to seek the unknown. To look for what is beautiful is its own reward. A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
City of Z

11 ​For it must needs be, that there is an ​​​opposition​ in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; ​​wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility. 2 Nephi 2:

This principle- as we choose appropriately can guide us only to happiness.

Literary Motifs

The scriptures provide paralleled, spiritural literary motifs. The themes and patterns in these identified scriptures cause one to awe at such description through story similarity. Like an artist, painting a broad masterpiece.  These scriptures detail such grand display if in a gallery below:

Matthew 27: 12-37...to the end of the chapter

Alma 14:15-17, 18-22

John 19:1-5; 10-19

I Nephi 18:9-19

JST Comparative Interpretation

Joseph Smith, Jr.  took 3 years to translate the King James version of the Bible. His mission he described of himself as a "translator".  His translation of the Book of Mormon in contrast from the plates took roughly 3 months.  Below this verse from  Psalms added great insight:

5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

comparative interpretation: 

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JST Ps. 30: 5 For his anger kindleth against the wicked; they repent, and in a moment it is turned away, and they are in his favor, and he giveth them life; therefore, weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. His translation of Genesis 17:1...added this doctrine: "that thou mayest know forever that children are not accountable before me until they are eight years old".