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[Projectyl]

On the new DI, we have two Bible verses:

[FractalP]

Hmm, I think you're on the right track there, but the DI says 'that which is common is not needed', so common letters might need to be discarded? And it seems that only the letters at the start of the passages or only the start of the alphabet are needed.

EDIT: Also, notice that the DI and one of the passages contain the word 'land' and the the other passage 'ground'?

EDIT v2.0: The last sentence, "That which comes early is prized" in a cryptic sense could mean that the start of a word is neccessary (hidden word maybe?)

[Donimo]

Removing the letters common between the two in pairs I'm left with this mess:
ACTS: EHINMPSV
DEUT: AGENORVY

Deleting *all* pairs of letters in various ways (forwards, backwards, backwards pairwise then together, from the above, etc.) I get the letters "AGHIMOPRSY". The orders in which the letters came out never spelled anything.

The letters look promising, but anagram tools turned up no one-word anagram, and no promising two-word ones. Playing with it myself, I got "PHYSIOGRAM", which appears on a few pages via Google, but otherwise doesn't seem to be a word.

Removing the duplicates is a bit tedious and open to error, so feel free to check my work.

Another note: The last seven letters of the first quote "(t)he goads" appear together in the other quote as "God as he". Maybe just coincidence since the DI says common stuff is *not* needed.

[ToddE]

Two things we should perhaps keep in mind with regards to the DI.

1. Every other DI has been essentially one or two simple manipulations or observations. It seems unlikely that we would have to go to the extent of mapping all the common letters from both verses, excluding them and so forth.

2. This is one of the few DI's that the puzzle constructors didn't write the text (i.e. Bible verses), so it seems far less likely that they would be able to find two verses that not only had the same number of letters but also was then subject to multiple letter removals throughout the entire passage so that a clear message was revealed. To find two such verses would be very arduous, if not impossible, I think.

So, what would be a much simpler interpretation? One that I was considering would be to remove the common letters from the LARGEST word in each verse. In this case we would have PERSECUTE and PROMISED (WHEREVER ties with this, but I took the Earliest of the two, possibly?)

Anyway, removing all the P's E's R's and S's from PERSECUTE, leaves you with CUT. Now I doubt this is the answer, but perhaps we should be thinking more along these lines.

[Qaqaq]

I agree with ToddE about the probable simplicity of how this works. I think it is interesting, as was pointed out above, that one verse has "goads" and one has "God as"; that's the kind of thing you could do a computer search for if you were the puzzle constructor, though I don't see how that actually leads to an answer in this case. But that seems like the kind of level of complexity we should be looking for.

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[Rich Reder]

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[Mardeaux]

I just sent a rather intimidating email to Pastor Bryson detailing the sins of his board so far and demanding that he release any patients he has that are going through the Passionix trials. I'll share any reply I get.

[Projectyl]

GOT IT!

[ToddE]

Well done, Proj!!!

I've been dreaming about those numbers like the sequence in Lost. Now may they rest in peace.

[Rich Reder]

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