Footnotes
Agreement with Ebenezer Robinson, 4 Feb. 1842. In an editorial passage in the 1 March 1842 issue, JS announced that although he was listed as the editor for the 15 February issue, he did not start acting as editor until the 1 March issue. (“To Subscribers,” Times and Seasons, 1 Mar. 1842, 3:710.)
Woodruff, Journal, 19 Feb. 1842.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
“An Epistle of the Twelve,” “History of Joseph Smith,” and “Mormons, or ‘Latter Day Saints,’” Times and Seasons, 1 Sept. 1842, 3:895–900. Although the Times and Seasons identifies West only as “Dr. West,” he is fully named in the Boston Investigator’s coverage of West’s preaching. (“Rev. Dr. George Montgomery West,” Boston Investigator, 8 June 1842, [3]; “Dr. West and the Mormons,” Boston Investigator, 22 June 1842, [3].)
Boston Investigator. Boston. 1831–1904.
“For the Times and Seasons,” “To the Churches Abroad and Near By,” “Invocation,” and “The Spirit of God,” Times and Seasons, 1 Sept. 1842, 3:908–910.
See “Editorial Method”.
See 1 Samuel 6:19. JS recorded in his personal history that an angel commanded him not to show the gold plates “to any person” except those to whom he “should be commanded to show them.” In 1838 JS explained that he delivered the plates to an angel after he finished translating them. (JS History, vol. A-1, 6, 8.)
The final pages of the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon contained a testimony of three witnesses and another of eight witnesses, each attesting to the reality of the gold plates as the source of the book. (Testimony of Three Witnesses, Late June 1829; Testimony of Eight Witnesses, Late June 1829.)
Possibly John Gill, a Baptist minister who lived in England during the eighteenth century and wrote extensively on the nature of angels and other heavenly beings. He also wrote nine volumes of biblical commentary. (See Gill, Body of Doctrinal Divinity, bk. 2, chap. 3; bk. 3, chaps. 2, 5–6; John Gill, An Exposition of the New Testament . . . , 3 vols. [London: By the author, 1746–1748]; John Gill, An Exposition of the Books of the Prophets of the Old Testament . . . , 2 vols. [London: By the author, 1757–1758]; and John Gill, An Exposition of the Old Testament . . . , 4 vols. [London: By the author, 1763–1765].)
Gill, John. A Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity; or, A System of Evangelical Truths, Deduced from the Sacred Scriptures. 3 vols. London: W. Winterbotham, 1796.
Gill, John. An Exposition of the New Testament, in three volumes. 3 vols. London: By the author, 1746–1748.
Gill, John. An Exposition of the Books of the Prophets of the Old Testament, Both larger and lesser. 2 vols. London: By the author, 1757–1758.
Gill, John. An Exposition of the Old Testament . . . 4 vols. London: By the author, 1763–1765.
Possibly Walter Scott, the editor of the Evangelist (Cincinnati) who published several articles critical of JS and the church starting in 1832. Or possibly Thomas Scott, the Anglican author of a popular six-volume biblical commentary published in 1822. (See, for example, [Walter Scott], “Mormon Bible—No. 1,” Evangelist, 1 Jan. 1841, 17–21; and Thomas Scott, The Holy Bible . . . , 5th ed., 6 vols. [London: 1822].)
Evangelist. Carthage, OH. 1832–1844.
Scott, Thomas, ed. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorized Version: With Explanatory Notes and Practical Observations. Vol. 5. 9th American ed. Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1823.
Possibly John A. Clark, rector of St. Andrews Church in Philadelphia, who wrote a book containing his thoughts, sketches of scenery, and accounts of events he witnessed while traveling throughout the United States. He dedicated several chapters to criticizing Latter-day Saints. Or possibly Adam Clarke. (Wilson and Fiske, Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1:629; John A. Clark, Gleanings by the Way [Philadelphia: W. J. and J. K. Simon, 1842].)
Wilson, James Grant, and John Fiske. Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. 3. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898.
Clark, John A. Gleanings by the Way. New York: Robert Carter, 1842.
See Genesis 16:7–10.
See Genesis 19:1–16.
See Hebrews 13:2.
See Genesis 28:12.
See Genesis 32:22–32.
See Exodus 2:11–12.
See Exodus 33:11.
See Numbers 11:24–25.
See Exodus 14:19; 23:20.
See Joshua 5:13–15.
See Daniel 3:25.
See Luke 1:26–38; 2:8–14.
See John 5:2–4.
See Acts 10:3–7.
See Acts 5:19.
In the book of Revelation, John directs specific messages to an “angel” of each of the seven churches of Asia. (See Revelation chaps. 2–3.)
See 2 Timothy 3:16.
See Acts 2:17; and Joel 2:28–29.
See Zephaniah 3:9.
See Joel 3:2.