Footnotes
See Revelation, 20 July 1831 [D&C 57]; Revelation, 27–28 Dec. 1832 [D&C 88:119]; Letter to William W. Phelps, 11 Jan. 1833; and Revelation, 26 Apr. 1838 [D&C 115].
Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:2, 27].
News Item, Nauvoo Neighbor, 14 June 1843, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
News Item, Nauvoo Neighbor, 14 June 1843, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Designing a sermon around a passage of scripture rather than a topic was referred to among Christian preachers as expository preaching. (Sturtevant, Preacher’s Manual, 1:68; Stowe, “On Expository Preaching,” 384.)
Sturtevant, S. T. The Preacher’s Manual; or, Lectures on Preaching. . . . 2nd ed. 2 vols. London: Richard Baynes, 1834.
Stowe, Calvin Ellis. “On Expository Preaching and the Principles Which Should Guide Us in the Exposition of Scripture.” Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer 5, no. 18 (Apr. 1835): 384–402.
For more information on Richards’s note-taking methodology, see Historical Introduction to Discourse, 4 July 1843.
Burgess’'s account is not dated, but it, along with another undated account of a discourse that follows it in his journal, was placed between accounts of JS’s discourses than can be securely dated 21 May and 23 July 1843. For a discussion of the known discourses JS delivered between these dates, see Historical Introduction to Discourse, between 11 June and 23 July 1843.
See Galatians 1:8–9.
See John 5:26; 10:18.
See John 5:19.
Wilford Woodruff’s account of this discourse clarifies that JS was teaching that both God and Jesus Christ have physical bodies, a teaching that departed from traditional Christian belief that God the Father lacks a material body. In 1841, JS taught that “the Son Had a Tabernicle & so had the father But the Holly Ghost is a personage of spirit without tabernicle.” On 2 April 1843, JS further clarified that “the Father has a body of flesh & bones as tangible as mans the Son also, but the Holy Ghost is a personage of spirit.” (Account of Meeting and Discourses, ca. 9 Mar. 1841; Instruction, 2 Apr. 1843 [D&C 130]; see also “Incorporeality of God,” in Buck, Theological Dictionary, 257.)
Buck, Charles. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A Comprehensive View of Every Article in the System of Divinity. . . . Philadelphia: W. W. Woodward, 1818.
In ancient Israel’s tabernacle and in Solomon’s temple, the Most Holy Place—or “Holy of Holies,” as it was sometimes translated—was where the Ark of the Covenant was kept, separated from the Holy Place of the temple by a veil. While priests could enter the Holy Place, only the high priest could enter the Most Holy Place. JS referred to such a room in the planned Nauvoo temple on 1 May 1842 when he stated, “No one can truly say he knows God until he has handled something. & this can only be in the holiest of Holies.” (Exodus 26:33–34; 1 Kings 8:6; Discourse, 1 May 1842.)
In October 1840, a church conference resolved “that every tenth day be appropriated for the building” of the temple. Soon after, able-bodied Latter-day Saint men began laboring in the stone quarry in Nauvoo as “tithing.” (Minutes and Discourse, 3–5 Oct. 1840; see also Letter to Quorum of the Twelve, 15 Dec. 1840; and McBride, House for the Most High, 14–15.)
McBride, Matthew. A House for the Most High: The Story of the Original Nauvoo Temple. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2007.
Higbee, a member of the temple committee, died on 8 June 1843. (Woodruff, Journal, 11 June 1843.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.