Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Theses and Dissertations 1975 Conceptual Patterns of Repetition in the Doctrine and Covenants and their Implications Richard Cottam Shipp Brigham Young University - Provo Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd Part of the Cultural History Commons, Mormon Studies Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons, and the Rhetoric and Composition Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Shipp, Richard Cottam, "Conceptual Patterns of Repetition in the Doctrine and Covenants and their Implications" (1975). Theses and Dissertations. 5104. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5104 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. conceptual PATTERNS OF repetition IN THE DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS AND THEIR implications A thesis presented to the department of church history and doctrine brigham young university in partial fulfbulffulfillmentillmentwillment of the requirements for the degree master of arts by richard C shipp december 1975 this thesis by richard C shipp is accepted in its present form by the department of church history and doctrine of the brigham young unitersityuniversityUnitersity as satisfying the thesis requirement for the degree of master of arts hovardhoward H bartenbarrenbartonitteeattee chairman11111an 7 y rhodney turner comnfttteedmpetteeDmnetteePEttee rifemberwenberwemberr gat 77 itee lamarr Lt berettgeretttt departments chai typed by RCS delegate type IBM selectric II11 courtesy edwin C shipp 11 acknowledgements sincere appreciation is expressed to my teachers in the Gragraduateducate religion department from whom I1 gained many profound insights into the gospel which aided greatly in the accaccomplishmentlishlishmentment of this work to my friends whose faith and confidence helped in the accom- plishplishmentment of this thesis to my parents and fenilyfamilyfwnilyfor their faith encouragement and prayers to elder charles G kroupa with whom the seeds of inspiration were planted for the genesis of this work that evening drive while on the road to the manti temple pageant the sumersummer of 17272 and with whom the initial work was done and to my father whose hand and help I1 received and acknowledge in this work for the insights and inspiration which he bestowed this work is dedicated to the children of zion with the hope that in some small way it may contribute to the glory of zion that faith also m1manightmightahtght increase in the earth and to the lord for whom the work was done iliiii111 TABLE OF CONTENTS page acknowledgements iiiliililii LIST OF revelation PATTERNS vi LIST OF FIGURES viii chapter I1 LANGUAGE AND IANGIJAGELANGUAGE STRUCTURE 1 introduction 1 language of man 1 the basis of language 1 origin of spoken and written language 2 structure in language 6 the esthetics of language 7 patterns of repetition 9 value of patterns 12 basic pattern implications 14 II11 THE ANALYSES OF SELECTED DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS revelations 15 introduction 0 0 0 0 0 is15 conceptual pattern structure & 15 initial work 15 basic pattern structures 0 4 10 9 10 0 17 basic pattern structure conventions 18 the system of analysis the analogy of the bricks 0 0 0 0 19 the marking system 20 basic pattern match types 0 0 0 0 22 A structured list 24 pattern examples 26 parallel patterns 27 reverse patterns 32 combination patterns 34 IV the analyses of the revelations 37 DC section 1 38 DC section 3 10 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 48 DC section 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Is 0 0 0 0 0 58 DC section 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62 DC section 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 67 DC section 74 0 0 0 0 a 0 & 0 a 0 0 0 G 0 0 70 DC section 76 0 0 9 0 0 im 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 74 DC section 87 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 103 DC section 91 0 0 0 0 0 1120 112.112 DC section 93 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 115115.115 DC section 136 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 1300 130.130 PATTERN p .146 iliIII111 implications 0 0 0 0 0 0 146146 patterns as symbols 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 p 0 0 1460 146.146 the basis of creation 9 0 9 a 0 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1460 146.146 eternal signs 0 0 0 0 147 patterns in language 0 0 0 0 149 the historic chiasmus 0 9 0 0 10 0 ID 0 0 10 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 151.151 AND 10 FINDINGS conclusions 0 0 0 0 9 & 0 & 0 0 0 1560 156.156 APPENDIX 10 16 0 .161 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 igligi0 161 bibliography 0 0 164164.164 ABSTRACT v LIST OF revelation PATTERNS doctrine and covenants page 31331 3 34 1037 27 1834361834 36 32 2077 36 2079 36 2930332930 33 33 3825273825 27 35 415 28 5010125010 12 27 5013245013 24 31 5826295826 29 34 6316186316 18 27 6325316325 31 29 652 28 769 19 0 ID 0 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 ID 0 0 b 0 10 1 27 7643447643 44 0 34 764548764548764s7645 48 35 28 8821248821 24 0 0 0 0 0 28 8828328828 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8834358834 35 0 0 35 8836388836 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 vi doctrine and covenants page 8848498848 49 33 88118 32 lol10142101 42 32 132181913218 19 30 section 1 40 section 3 50 macropatternmacro pattern a 0 0 0 0 1 0 a 0 0.0 16 57 section 4 0 16 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 16 0 61 section 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 it 0 0 1 66 section 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 69 section 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 section 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 73 section 76 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 94 macropatternmacro pattern 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 78 section 87 0 0 0 0 ill section 91 0 0 0 & 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 114114.114 section 93 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 1250 125.125 section 136 0 0 0 0 D 0 0 1430 143.143 VII LIST OF FIGURES figure page I1 subjectpatternsubject pattern of esiahmosiahmoslah51012510 12 in french and english it 41 11 II11 gods creation pattepatternm DC 2930332930 33 153 viii if consequence 0 AFTER deliberate consideration IN OF THE BOOK OF reterevelationsREIELATIONS NOW TO BE PRINTED BEING THE foundation OF THE CHURCH IN THESE LAST dagsVAYSDAYSAND A BENEFIT TO THE WORLD SHOWING THAT THE KEYS OF THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF OUR SAVIOR ARE AGAIN ENTRUSTED TO MAN AND THE RICHES OF ETERNITY WITHIN THE COMPASS OF THOSE WHO ARE WILL- ING TO LIVE BY EVERY WORD THAT proceedethPROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOVGODgoo THEREFORE THE conference VOTEVOTEDD THAT THEY PRIZE THE TO BE dorthvoethVORTHWORTH TO THE CHURCH THE RICHES OF revelations J THE UHOLEWHOLE EARTH SPEAKING temporally JOSEPH SMITH VHCDHCI1ipp 235 ixIX chapter I1 LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE STRUCTURE introduction in laying a general foundationfoundation for this study a brief survey of language its origin and use by man and its basic levels of structuring will be presented patterns generated through language structuring and the inherent value of structure in language to convey meaning or esthetic qualities will also be considered finally basic implications of pat- terns incorporated into language will be presented LANGUAGELANGIJAGE OF MAN the basis of langualanguage thought is the basis of both speech and writing thought can take place completely independent of words written spoken or unspok- en for instance when a person listens to music he does not think of what he is hearing in words thoughts are also much faster than words we can think faster than we can talk one author wrote concerning the relationship of thoughts and words there may be many stretches of time during which a sculptor is so busy conceptualizing forms and techniques that words disappear en- tirely from his thoughts much the sairesainesanesame is true of a person engross- ed in solving a jigsaw puzzle suddenly perceiving that two inde- pendently completed sections belong together is in no way a linguist- ic accomplishment although one may subsequently exclaim aha this must go over hereihereherelberei11 lronaldaronaldronald langacker language and its structure fitlfitiapnp har- court brace and world inc 196791967.91967 p 37 2 A further demonstration of the existence of thought without language is the comoncommon experience of wishing to express some idea but being unable to find a satisfactory way to put it into words 2 A language vocabulary then never renders all the aspects of thought there are always fewer words than ideas 3 origin of spoken andwrittenhandwrittenand written language the traditional view of the origin of spoken language and writing is that they evolved from simple beginnings to more complex and sophisticated levels of development 4 there are those however who defend an opposite view wrote one writer primitive languages were fleveryoleveryevery bit as complex and rich in expressive power as any european lan- guage 5 claims that primitiveprimitivesprimitive11 languages have very small vocabular- ies that they have no grammar that most of their words are onomatopoet- ic that they cannot express abstract ideas and so on are just plain false 06 this view was also maintained by mario pei As for the simpl- icity of primitive languages that is totally a figment of the imagina- ttion 1 7 several cultures claim a divine origin for their written languag- es sanskrit is written with an alphabet named vvanagaaiydevanagaxk or 21bidbid p 38 3vendryesvendryes language new york alfred A knopf 1925 p 238 4asaasAs statedinthestated ininThethe cevelodevelodevelopmentnt of the book the treasure room of princeton university library NJ princeton univ press 1938 p 9 SLang langackerangackerangacker p 18 61bidbid 2 p 18 smario7mariomariomarlopei the stostory of language new york JB lippincott co 1965 p 124 3 tpertaining1pettainingI1 to the city of the gods 1 hieroglyphic writing used by the egyptians