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Revelation, March 1838 [D&C 113]
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Questions by Elias Higby [Higbee]
23 Oct. 1795–8 June 1843. Clerk, judge, surveyor. Born at Galloway, Gloucester Co., New Jersey. Son of Isaac Higbee and Sophia Somers. Moved to Clermont Co., Ohio, 1803. Married Sarah Elizabeth Ward, 10 Sept. 1818, in Tate Township, Clermont Co. Lived at ...
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1st. Q. What is ment by the command in
Isiah 52d. Chap 1st. verse which saith Put on thy strength O Zion
and what people had I[sa]iah referance to
A. He had reference to those whome God should call in the
last day’s who should hold the power of Priesthood to bring again zion and
the redemption of Israel.
And to put on her strength is to put on the authority
of the priesthood which she (zion) has a right to by lineage: Also to return
to that power which she had lost
Ques. 2d. What are we to understand by
zions loosing herself from the bands of her neck 2d. verse.
A. We are to understand that the scattered remnants are exorted
to to return to the
Lord from whence they have fal[l]en which if they do the promise of the
Lord is that he will speak to them or give them revelation See
6th. 7th. and 8th. verses
The bands of her neck are the curses of God upon her or the remn ants
of Israel in their scattered condition among the Gentiles.
[p. 18]
Revelation, Far West, MO, Mar. 1838; handwriting of George W. Robinson; in JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838, pp. 17–18; CHL.
Originally called Shoal Creek. Located fifty-five miles northeast of Independence. Surveyed 1823; first settled by whites, 1831. Site purchased, 8 Aug. 1836, before Caldwell Co. was organized for Latter-day Saints in Missouri. William W. Phelps and John Whitmer...
More Info14 May 1814–10 Feb. 1878. Clerk, postmaster, merchant, clothier, banker. Born at Pawlet, Rutland Co., Vermont. Baptized into LDS church and moved to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio, by 1836. Clerk and recorder for Kirtland high council, beginning Jan. 1836. Married...
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