[4]. Alma xxiv.
[5]. Mosiah xxvii: 18-23.
[6]. Mosiah xxix.
[7]. "Mormonism" (1857) pp. 280-282.
[8]. "The Golden Bible," Rev. M. T. Lamb, (1887), chapter v.
[9]. Elsewhere on the subject of these signs given to the Nephites, I have said: "I think I see something very beautiful and appropriate in these marvelous signs. I think it is fitting that he who is described in the four Gospels as well as in the fifth (III. Nephi, Book of Mormon) as the 'Light and Life of the world,' should have his entrance into earth life proclaimed by a night in which there should be no darkness, and that a new star for a season should appear in the heavens, to be a witness to the people that 'the Life and Light' of mankind had indeed come into the world. And equally appropriate is it that when he who is described as the 'Life and Light of the world' is laid low in death, the world should have the testimony of light eclipsed. I see a beautiful appropriateness in these signs, and in them I see added pictures in the life and career of the Lord Jesus Christ." ("The Fifth Gospel," a Discourse by the writer replying to criticisms of Dr. W. M. Paden on III. Nephi, Defense of the Faith and the Saints, pp. 381-2.)
[10]. III. Nephi xi.
[11]. "The Golden Bible," p. 162.
[12]. Compare II. Kings ii: 7-13 and Acts i: 4-9.
[13]. Compare Acts xix: 11, 12, Acts v: 15 with II. Kings iv: 29.