Footnotes
See Historical Introduction to Discourse, 14 May 1843.
See Levi Richards, Journal, 21 May 1843.
Richards, Levi. Journals, 1840–1853. Levi Richards, Papers, 1837–1867. CHL. MS 1284, box 1.
See Historical Introduction to Discourse, 4 July 1843.
Coray and Coray, Notebook, verso, [36]. Martha Jane Knowlton Coray recounted that “from the age of thirteen years,” she had been “much in the habit of noting down evrything, I heard and read which possessed any peculiar interest to me, in order to preserve facts.” According to one account, Coray “took in common hand every di[s]course that she heard him [JS] preach, and has carefully preserved them.” Coray’s daughter noted that “it was ever her [Coray’s] custom when going to meeting to take pencil and note paper; she thus preserved notes of sermons that would otherwise have been lost to the Church.” (Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, Provo, Utah Territory, to Brigham Young, 13 June 1865, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL; Obituary for Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, Woman’s Exponent, 1 Feb. 1882, 10:133; Lewis, “Martha Jane Knowlton Coray,” 440.)
Coray, Martha Jane Knowlton, and Howard Coray. Notebook, ca. 1853–1855. CHL.
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
Lewis, Martha J. C. “Martha Jane Knowlton Coray.” Improvement Era 5, no. 6 (Apr. 1902): 439–440.
See 2 Peter 1:18; Matthew 17:1–8; Mark 9:2–9; and Luke 9:28–36.
Nineteenth-century Methodist scholar Adam Clarke noted in his Bible commentary, which JS studied and utilized, that there were “many different interpretations” of 2 Peter 1:19. Clarke suggested that the verse “seems to say that prophecy is a surer evidence of Divine revelation than miracles.” The Coray account of the discourse quoted JS as saying that previous commentators erred in downplaying the role of knowledge in securing one’s calling and election. (Clarke, New Testament, 2:903, italics in original; see also Wayment and Wilson-Lemmon, “Recovered Resource,” 262–284.)
Clarke, Adam. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Text Carefully Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorised Version, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts. . . . Vol. 1. New York: J. Emory and B. Waugh, 1831.
Wayment, Thomas A., and Haley Wilson-Lemmon. “A Recovered Resource: The Use of Adam Clarke’s Bible Commentary in Joseph Smith’s Bible Translation.” In Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity, edited by Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid, 262–284. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2020.
Willard Richards’s account of a sermon JS gave three weeks later captured a similar metaphor: “I [am?] a rough stone. the sound of the hammer & chisel was never hea[r]d on me. nor never will be. I desire the learning & wisdom of heaven alone.” (Discourse, 11 June 1843–A.)