Footnotes
[1]. Psalm viii.
[2]. Doc. and Cov. Sec. xciii.
[3]. Doc. and Cov. Sec. xciii: 29-31.
[4]. Doc. and Cov. Sec. xxix: 36-38, also Pearl of Great Price p. 14. (1888 Edition.)
[5]. See Rev. xii: 7-12. II. Peter ii: 4. Jude vi.
[6]. Pearl of Great Price p. 62.
[7]. The hymn was composed by Eliza R. Snow Smith, wife of the prophet.
[8]. Doc. and Cov. sec. lxxxviii. 26-34; see also sec. lxxvi. and cxxx.
[9]. History of Joseph Smith, Millennial Star, vol. xxi., p. 6.
[10]. Outlines of Ecclesiastical History, p. 435.
[11]. Phillippians ii. 6.
[12]. I. Epist. John iii. 2, 3.
[13]. Matt. v. 48.
[14]. Rev. iii. 21.
[15]. The argument here made by the prophet is very much strengthened by the following passage: "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he (the Father) doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." St. John v. 19.
[16]. From a discourse preached by Joseph Smith at Nauvoo, April 7th, 1844. Millennial Star, vol xxiii, pp. 245-248.
[17]. Gen. i. 26.
[18]. Matt. iii. 16, 17.
[19]. The prophet Joseph, referring to this matter, says: "I wish to declare I have always, and in all congregations when I have preached on the subject of the Deity, it has been the plurality of Gods. It has been preached by the elders for fifteen years. I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and that the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a spirit; and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods. If this is in accordance with the New Testament, lo, and behold! We have three Gods anyhow, and they are plural; and who can contradict it?" Millennial Star, vol. xxiv. p. 108.
[20]. Rev. i. 1-6.
[21]. Commenting on this text the prophet said: "If Jesus Christ was the Son of God, and John discovered that God, the Father of Jesus Christ, had a Father, you may suppose that he had a Father also. Where was there ever a son without a father? And where was there ever a father without first being a son? Whenever did a tree or anything spring into existence without a progenitor? And everything comes in this way. Paul says that that which is earthly is in the likeness of that which is heavenly. Hence, if Jesus had a Father, can we not believe that he had a Father also? I despise the idea of being scared to death at such a doctrine, for the Bible is full of it." Millennial Star, vol xxiv., p. 109.
[22]. Deut, x. 17.
[23]. Josh. xxii. 22.
[24]. Psalms cxxxvi. 2, 3.
[25]. Dan. xi. 36.
[26]. Rev. xvii. 14.
[27]. John x. 30-37.
[28]. Matt. xxii. 41, 45. Also Psalms cx. I.
[29]. I. Cor. viii. 4, 6.
[30]. On the passage under consideration the prophet remarked: "Paul says there are Gods many and Lords many—I want to set it forth in a plain and simple manner—but to us there is but one God—that is, pertaining to us; and he is in all and through all. But if Joseph Smith says there are Gods many and Lords many, they cry, 'Away with him! Crucify him! Crucify him!' * * * Paul, if Joseph Smith is a blasphemer, you are. I say there are Gods many, and Lords many, but to us only one; and we are to be in subjection to that one." Millennial Star, vol. xxiv. p. 108.
[31]. St. John, xvii.
[32]. "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the Sons of God; therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the Sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure." First Epistle of John, iii: 1-4.