The Articles of Faith / A Series of Lectures on the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

by James E. Talmage

[628] Doc. and Cov. cvii, 20.

[629] Gen. xiv, 18; Heb. vii, 1-17.

[630] Doc. and Cov. cvii, 2-4.

[631] Doc. and Cov. cvii, 8, 18-19.

[632] Doc. and Cov. cvii, 21.

[633] Doc. and Cov. xx, 57; cvii, 85.

[634] Quorum.—This term has acquired a special meaning among the Latter-day Saints. It signifies, not alone a majority or such a number of persons of any organized body as is requisite for authoritative action, but the organized body itself. The Church regards a quorum as "a council or an organized body of the priesthood," e. g. an elders' quorum; the quorum of the Twelve Apostles, etc. (See Standard Dictionary.)

[635] Doc. and Cov. xx, 53-59; cvii, 86.

[636] Doc. and Cov. xx, 38-45, 70; cvii, 11-12.

[637] Doc. and Cov. cvii, 89.