Footnotes

[1]. Deut. xviii: 21, 22.

[2]. Isaiah xli: 21-23.

[3]. Referring to the record of the Nephites, the records lying before them in the stone box from which Joseph had just removed the covering.

[4]. Meaning the record of the Nephites—the Book of Mormon.

[5]. The plates comprising the Book of Mormon.

[6]. Meaning the people who receive the gospel.

[7]. Meaning the prophet Joseph.

[8]. The plates of the Book of Mormon were given to the prophet to translate in 1827.

[9]. It was in May, 1829, that the Priesthood was first given.