History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 5Smith, Joseph, Jr.
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History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 5
Smith, Joseph, Jr.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
So also in slightly different form the peculiarity will be found in
section 12: "Behold, I am God and give heed," etc., (v. 2); "behold,
I speak unto you," etc., (v. 7); "behold, I am the light and life of
the world," etc., (v. 9). Also in section 29: "Thus did I the Lord God
appoint unto man" (v. 43); "wherefore I, the Lord God, will send forth
flies" (v. 18); "wherefore I, the Lord God, caused that he should be
cast out," (v. 41); "and thus did I, the Lord God, appoint unto man
the days," etc., (v. 43). Again in section 50: "Behold, I, the Lord,
have looked upon you" (v. 4); "wherefore I, the Lord, ask you this
question" (v. 13). Also section 52; "Behold, thus saith the Lord unto
the Elders," etc., (v. 1); "I, the Lord, will make known unto you" (v.
2); "behold I, the Lord, will hasten the city," etc., (v. 43.)
The peculiar use of "none other," in place of "no other," and of
"none" instead of "no one," is an expression both in the revelation
on marriage and a number of other revelations about which there is no
question of the authorship being Joseph Smith's. In the revelation on
marriage we have this: "Abraham * * * abode in my law, as Isaac also,
and Jacob did _none other_ things than that which they were commanded;
and because they did _none other_ things than that which they were
commanded, they have entered into their exaltation" (v. 37). In section
43 we have the same phrase: "There is _none other_ appointed unto you,"
etc., (v. 3); "I say unto you that _none else_ shall be appointed unto
this gift" (v. 4); also in Section 61, the following: "It shall be said
in days to come that _none_ is able to go up to the land" (v. 16);
also Section 82, "and _none_ doeth good, for all have gone out of the
way (v. 6); and they * * * shall find _none_ inheritance in that day,"
etc., (Sec. 85:9).
The use of the plural "_Gods_" in the revelation on marriage and in
other revelations, tends to prove common authorship. In the revelation
on marriage we have the following: "And henceforth are not _Gods_, but
are angels of God forever and ever" (v. 17); "it cannot be received
there because the angels and the _Gods_ are appointed there, by whom
they cannot pass" etc. (v. 18); "then shall they be _Gods_ because they
have no end; then shall they be _Gods_ because they have all power"
(v. 20); and sit upon thrones, and are not angels, but are _Gods_ (v.
36); in the revelation called the Vision, Doc. and Cov. Sec. 76, which
revelation was given in February, 1832, and first published in {XL}
the _Evening and Morning Star_ of July, 1833, (vol. 1, number 2, p.
28) occurs the following: "And are priests of the most high, * * *
wherefore, as it is written, they are _Gods_ even the Sons of God" (v.
58) also in Sec. 121; "Nothing shall be withheld, whether there be one
God or many _Gods_, they shall be manifest (v. 28); according to that
which was ordained in the midst of the Council of the Eternal God of
all other _Gods_, before this world was" (v. 32).
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