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Woodruff, Journal, 13 Dec. 1838.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
“Historian’s Office Catalogue Book March 1858,” [25], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
“Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office, 1878,” [14], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Eunice W. Perry to Joseph Fielding Smith, no date, in Case File for Woodruff, “Book of Revelations,” CHL.
Woodruff, Wilford. “Book of Revelations,” ca. 1837–1860. CHL.
See, for example, Source Note for Revelation Book 1.
Brook P. Hales to Glenn N. Rowe, 28 June 2010, in Case File for Woodruff, “Book of Revelations,” CHL.
Woodruff, Wilford. “Book of Revelations,” ca. 1837–1860. CHL.
Footnotes
Woodruff, Journal, 25–26 June 1839. In October 1838, Hyde left the church and signed an affidavit describing the Saints’ military operations against vigilantes in Daviess County, Missouri.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
JS traveled to Plymouth, Illinois, to visit William Smith and then went to Macomb, Illinois, to see Don Carlos and Samuel Smith. (JS, Journal, 15–26 June 1839; see also Editorial Note preceding journal entry for 15–17 June 1839.)
See Allen et al., Men with a Mission, 59–60.
Allen, James B., Ronald K. Esplin, and David J. Whittaker. Men with a Mission, 1837–1841: The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992.
Woodruff, Journal, 27 June 1839; JS, Journal, 27 June 1839.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Kimball, “History,” 106.
Kimball, Heber C. “History of Heber Chase Kimball by His Own Dictation,” ca. 1842–1856. Heber C. Kimball, Papers, 1837–1866. CHL. MS 627, box 2.
Vision, 16 Feb. 1832 [D&C 76:25–27]. Likewise, in the influential Theological Dictionary, which summarizes Protestant theology, minister Charles Buck described the devil as “a fallen angel” and the leader of fallen angels. Although both Buck and JS discussed the expulsion of angels from heaven as a result of sin, only JS characterized this expulsion in terms of a premortal council. (“Angel,” and “Devil,” in Buck, Theological Dictionary, 17, 116.)
Buck, Charles. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; a Comprehensive View of Every Article in the System of Divinity. . . . New American ed., edited by George Bush. Philadelphia: James Kay Jr., 1830.
See Revelation, ca. 8 Mar. 1831–A [D&C 46:7]; and Revelation, 9 May 1831 [D&C 50:2]; see also JS History, vol. A-1, 93.
Woodruff, Journal, 27 June 1839.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Richards, “Pocket Companion,” 9–10.
Richards, Willard. “Willard Richards Pocket Companion Written in England,” ca. 1838–1840. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, box 2, fd. 6.
See Luke 24:39–40, 42–43; and Matthew 27:52–53. Although theologians debated about the substance of angels, Charles Buck’s Theological Dictionary noted that “the more general opinion is, that they are substances entirely spiritual, though they can at any time assume bodies, and appear in human shape.” Like JS, eighteenth-century Swedish mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg described the corporality of angels and established his religious knowledge and authority by claiming to converse with angels face-to-face. Swedenborg also considered angels not as purely spiritual creations but as individuals who had at one time lived on earth. (“Angel,” in Buck, Theological Dictionary, 17; Brief Account of the Life of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg, 20–24; McDannell and Lang, Heaven, 188–189; Park, “Early Mormon Angelology,” 5–9.)
Buck, Charles. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; a Comprehensive View of Every Article in the System of Divinity. . . . New American ed., edited by George Bush. Philadelphia: James Kay Jr., 1830.
A Brief Account of the Life of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg, of the Senatorial Order of the Kingdom of Sweden; a Servant of the Lord; and the Messenger of the New Jerusalem Dispensation. Taunton, England: C. H. Drake, 1813.
McDannell, Colleen, and Bernhard Lang. Heaven: A History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.
Park, Benjamin E. “‘A Uniformity So Complete’: Early Mormon Angelology.” Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies 2, no. 1 (2010): 1–37.
Woodruff’s journal version adds “face to face in personage.” (Woodruff, Journal, 27 June 1839.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Instead of “offers him his hand,” Woodruff’s journal version has “reaches out his hand unto the man.” (Woodruff, Journal, 27 June 1839.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Woodruff’s journal version describes the angel of God having a physical substance and then describes the devil’s lack of physical substance. (Woodruff, Journal, 2 July 1839.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Woodruff’s journal version adds “& he should place all Confidence in him such personages or angels are Saints with there resurrected Bodies.” (Woodruff, Journal, 27 June 1839.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Instead of “it would be against the law by which they are governed,” Woodruff’s journal version has “this is against the law given him.” (Woodruff, Journal, 27 June 1839.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Instead of “by observing this Key,” Woodruff’s journal version has “in keeping in mind these things.” (Woodruff, Journal, 27 June 1839.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.