Footnotes
Willard Richards, Nauvoo, IL, to Brigham Young, New York City, NY, 18–19 July 1843, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL; see also Discourse, 16 July 1843.
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.
See Revelation 1:6. Prominent reformer John Calvin connected the titles, and the doctrine of the threefold office of Jesus Christ became important in Reformed and Lutheran theology. The phrase was also widely used in nineteenth-century American Protestant discourse. For instance, the popular hymn “I Know That My Redeemer Lives,” which was included in the church’s 1835 hymnal, states, “He lives my Prophet, Priest, and King.” Likewise, Presbyterian minister Ashbel Green explained that while certain Old Testament figures fulfilled two of the roles (“David was a king and a prophet”), only Christ fulfilled all three. (Dietrich Ritschl, “Office of Christ,” in Encyclopedia of Christianity, 3:820; Hymn 79, Collection of Sacred Hymns [1835], 107; Green, Lectures on the Shorter Catechism, 316; see also “The Council of Fifty in Nauvoo, Illinois.”)
The Encyclopedia of Christianity. Edited by Erwin Fahlbusch, Jan Milič Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Pelikan, and Lukas Vischer. Translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley. 5 vols. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans; Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 1999–2008.
Green, Ashbel. Lectures on the Shorter Catechism of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Addressed to Youth. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1841.
For more information on Willard Richards’s note-taking methods, see Historical Introduction to Discourse, 4 July 1843.