Footnotes
Note, [27 May 1964], in Revelations Collection, CHL; Faulring, “Examination of the 1829 ‘Articles of the Church of Christ’ in Relation to Section 20 of the Doctrine and Covenants,” 87n70.
Revelations Collection, 1831–ca. 1844, 1847, 1861, ca. 1876. CHL. MS 4583.
Faulring, Scott H. “An Examination of the 1829 ‘Articles of the Church of Christ’ in Relation to Section 20 of the Doctrine and Covenants.” BYU Studies 43, no. 4 (2004): 57–91.
Footnotes
Revelation, June 1829–B [D&C 18:3–5].
Cowdery’s Articles is related textually not only to Articles and Covenants, ca. Apr. 1830 [D&C 20], but also to Revelation, June 1829–B [D&C 18], both of which are in Revelation Book 1. Articles of the Church of Christ is the only non-JS text copied into that manuscript volume. The editors of the Book of Commandments marked it up as if they intended to include it in the Book of Commandments, but they did not. (See Revelation Book 1, pp. 23–24.)
If Whitmer considered Articles of the Church of Christ to be an early version of Articles and Covenants, it is unlikely that he would have included both in Revelation Book 1. Even when a revelation was expanded after its first version, Whitmer only included one version of each revelation.
JS History, vol. A-1, 17–18; Oliver Cowdery, Norton, OH, to William W. Phelps, 7 Sept. 1834, LDS Messenger and Advocate, Oct. 1834, 1:15–16.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
Revelation, June 1829–B [D&C 18:3–4].
Some of the same Book of Mormon passages were also used in JS’s later Articles and Covenants.
Revelation, June 1829–B [D&C 18:3]. Once the Book of Mormon was published, the prayers on the Lord’s Supper printed therein became readily available for reference and guidance. Before then, Articles provided the only accessible copy of the prayers found in the Book of Mormon. After the publication of the Book of Mormon, some of the extant versions of JS’s Articles and Covenants referenced the published prayers found in the Book of Mormon instead of reproducing the text. (See Articles and Covenants, ca. Apr. 1830 [D&C 20:72–79]; and Coltrin, Diary, [9].)
Coltrin, Zebedee. Diaries, 1832–1834. CHL. MS 1443.
JS History, vol. A-1, 26–27.
JS History, vol. A-1, 37–38.
Differences between the featured version of this document and the copy found in Revelation Book 1 are noted in footnotes to the text.
Cowdery recorded the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon from April to June 1829, after which he created a copy to be used by the printer to typeset the Book of Mormon. Cowdery repeatedly made the same kinds of changes throughout the printer’s manuscript, such as capitalizing words and changing “&” to “and.” Based on comparison of the passages of Cowdery’s Articles that were copied from the Book of Mormon with the Book of Mormon manuscripts themselves, it appears that the earliest known copy of Articles (found in Revelation Book 1) was copied from the original manuscript and that the copy of Articles featured here (the second extant copy) was copied from the printer’s manuscript. All of the changes made to the copy featured here match the common changes that Oliver Cowdery made to the printer’s manuscript: there were fifty-one capitalization changes, one instance of “has” being changed to “hath,” six instances of an ampersand being changed to “and,” one instance of “shew” being changed to “show,” one instance of “wherefore” being changed to “therefore,” three instances of “ye shall” being changed to “shall ye,” and one instance of “man nor of men” being changed to “of men nor of man.” (See Skousen, “Translating the Book of Mormon,” 110–111.)
Skousen, Royal. “Translating the Book of Mormon: Evidence from the Original Manuscript.” In Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited: The Evidence for Ancient Origins, edited by Noel B. Reynolds, 61–93. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1997.
See Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 508 [3 Nephi 27:20].
See Revelation, June 1829–B [D&C 18:22–25].
See Revelation, June 1829–B [D&C 18:31]; and Revelation, June 1829–E [D&C 17:8].
These declarations, also found in the Gospel of John, begin a number of JS’s revelations, including the first directed to Oliver Cowdery. (See John 1:5; see also, for example, Revelation, Apr. 1829–A [D&C 6:21]; Revelation, Spring 1829 [D&C 10:58]; and Revelation, May 1829–A [D&C 11:11].)
See Revelation, June 1829–B [D&C 18:34].
See Revelation, June 1829–B [D&C 18:47].
See Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 548 [Ether 5:6].
TEXT: Page torn. Missing words supplied from Revelation Book 1.
“Amen” was added by Sidney Rigdon at this point in Revelation Book 1. This benediction (including the “amen”) is almost identical to the one Cowdery used to close his 14 June 1829 letter to Hyrum Smith. In Revelation Book 1, the text from this point to the end of the extant portion of this document is crossed out. (Revelation Book 1, p. 24; Oliver Cowdery, Fayette, NY, to Hyrum Smith, 14 June 1829, in JS Letterbook 1, p. 6.)
JS Letterbook 1 / Smith, Joseph. “Letter Book A,” 1832–1835. Joseph Smith Collection. CHL. MS 155, box 2, fd. 1.
For a discussion of the term apostle, see Historical Introduction to License for John Whitmer, 9 June 1830.
The extant portion of the version of this revelation found in Revelation Book 1 ends at this point because a number of pages are missing from the volume. The final lines of the missing portion were presumably crossed out like the last few extant lines.
See Jeremiah 20:9.