Footnotes
See Historical Introduction to Revelation, ca. Aug. 1830 [D&C 27].
Although the original revelation was dictated by JS in 1830, the earliest extant version is the 1831 copy in Revelation Book 1. For additional information concerning this version, see Source Note and Historical Introduction to Revelation, ca. Aug. 1830 [D&C 27].
The minor edits included spelling, grammatical, and case changes. The most significant deviation between the 1831 manuscript version and the 1833 published version is the elimination of the contextual introduction from the latter. The preamble in the manuscript version, likely added by John Whitmer when copying the text into Revelation Book 1, reads, “A Revelation to the Church given at Harmony susquehann[a]h County State of Pennsylvania given to Joseph the Seer at a time that he went to purchase wine for Sacrament & he was stop[p]ed by an Angel & he spok[e] to him as follows Saying.” Two other versions were produced in 1831 but contain no significant changes from the version in Revelation Book 1. (Revelation, ca. Aug. 1830, in Revelation Book 1, p. 35 [D&C 27]; “A Commandment Given, September 4, 1830,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Mar. 1833, [6]; Revelation, ca. Aug. 1830, in Book of Commandments 28 [D&C 27:1–5]; Revelation, ca. Aug. 1830, in Partridge, Copies of Revelations; “The Mormon Creed,” Painesville [OH] Telegraph, 19 Apr. 1831, [4].)
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
Partridge, Edward. Copies of Revelations, ca. Dec. 1830–Spring 1831. CHL. MS 1133.
Painesville Telegraph. Painesville, OH. 1822–1986.
The date of Peter, James, and John’s visit is unknown, but sources indicate it occurred sometime after John the Baptist’s May 1829 visit to confer the lesser priesthood on JS and Oliver Cowdery. A later JS history indicates that John the Baptist acted under the direction of Peter, James, and John and promised they would later provide a higher, or additional, authority. In the preface to his 1832 history, JS indicated his intention to record his “reception” of both “the holy Priesthood” and “the high Priesthood,” neither of which the unfinished 1832 history addressed. Cowdery also noted receiving the Melchizedek, or “high and holy,” Priesthood in Patriarchal Blessing Book 1, but the featured text predates that entry by a month. (JS History, vol. A-1, 18, 27; JS History, ca. Summer 1832, 1; Patriarchal Blessings, 1:9; see also “Joseph Smith Documents Dating through June 1831.”)
JS History / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1838–1856. Vols. A-1–F-1 (original), A-2–E-2 (fair copy). Historian’s Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, boxes 1–7. The history for the period after 5 Aug. 1838 was composed after the death of Joseph Smith.
Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.
In January 1834, Cowdery wrote a letter to John Whitmer in which he said that since coming to Kirtland, Ohio, in summer 1833, he had learned “that the Angel Michael is no less than our father Adam.” Sometime around spring 1835, JS prepared an Instruction on Priesthood that also contained information about Adam being “Michael, the Prince, the Archangel.” Similarly, in June 1835, William W. Phelps wrote in a letter to Cowdery that he understood that “Michael, the prince” was “our great father Adam,” something that he considered to be “new light.” Around September 1835, Cowdery recorded a December 1833 blessing that JS gave to Joseph Smith Sr. and also referred to Adam as “Michael, the Prince, the Arch angel,” and “the Ancient of Days,” language that was not used in the original version of the blessing as recorded in JS’s journal in 1833. (Oliver Cowdery, Kirtland, OH, to John Whitmer, 1 Jan. 1834, in Cowdery, Letterbook, 15; Instruction on Priesthood, between ca. 1 Mar. and ca. 4 May 1835 [D&C 107:54]; “Letter No. 8,” LDS Messenger and Advocate, June 1835, 1:130; Blessing for Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith, between ca. 15 and 28 Sept. 1835.)
Cowdery, Oliver. Letterbook, 1833–1838. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
JS History, vol. A-1, 51.
JS History / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1838–1856. Vols. A-1–F-1 (original), A-2–E-2 (fair copy). Historian’s Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, boxes 1–7. The history for the period after 5 Aug. 1838 was composed after the death of Joseph Smith.
For additional treatments of the 1831 and 1833 versions, see Revelation, ca. Aug. 1830 [D&C 27]; and Revelation, ca. Aug. 1830, in Book of Commandments 28 [D&C 27:1–5].
Revelation, Apr. 1829–A [D&C 6:28]; Revelation, Sept. 1830–B [D&C 28:7]; Revelation, 7 Dec. 1830 [D&C 35:17–18].
Revelation, 11 Sept. 1831 [D&C 64:5].
Revelation, 30 Oct. 1831 [D&C 65:2–6]; Revelation, 15 Mar. 1832 [D&C 81:1–2]; Matthew 16:19. In March 1833, Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams, JS’s counselors in the presidency of the high priesthood, were made “equal in holding the keys of the Kingdom” with JS. (Minutes, 18 Mar. 1833; see also Revelation, 8 Mar. 1833 [D&C 90:1–6].)
See Matthew 26:26–28.
It is difficult to ascertain how closely this prohibition on purchased wine was followed. Wine continued to be used for the sacrament for years, and existing records indicate the Saints both made it and purchased it. (Murdock, Autobiography, 34; JS History, vol. B-1, addenda, 4nM.)
Murdock, John. Autobiography, ca. 1859–1867. John Murdock, Journal and Autobiography, ca. 1830–1867. CHL. MS 1194, fd. 4.
JS History / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1838–1856. Vols. A-1–F-1 (original), A-2–E-2 (fair copy). Historian’s Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, boxes 1–7. The history for the period after 5 Aug. 1838 was composed after the death of Joseph Smith.
See Matthew 26:29. The first insertion begins here and continues unbroken a third of the way into the third paragraph.
Moroni is the last prophet featured in the Book of Mormon. JS stated that an angelic Moroni appeared to him in 1823 and later directed him to the location where the Book of Mormon records and artifacts were buried. For different accounts of Moroni’s visitations to JS, see JS, Journal, 9–11 Nov. 1835; JS History, 1834–1836, 121–122; JS History, vol. A-1, 4–7; JS, “Church History,” Times and Seasons, 1 Mar. 1842, 3:707; and JS, “Latter Day Saints,” in Rupp, He Pasa Ekklesia, 405.
JS History, 1834–1836 / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1834–1836. In Joseph Smith et al., History, 1838–1856, vol. A-1, back of book (earliest numbering), 9–20, 46–187. Historian's Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, box 1, vol. 1.
JS History / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1838–1856. Vols. A-1–F-1 (original), A-2–E-2 (fair copy). Historian’s Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, boxes 1–7. The history for the period after 5 Aug. 1838 was composed after the death of Joseph Smith.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Rupp, Israel Daniel, ed. He Pasa Ekklesia [The Whole Church]: An Original History of the Religious Denominations at Present Existing in the United States, Contains Authentic Accounts of Their Rise, Progress, Statistics and Doctrines. Written Expressly for the Work by Eminent Theological Professors, Ministers, and Lay-Members, of the Respective Denominations. Projected, Compiled and Arranged by I. Daniel Rupp, of Lancaster, Pa. Philadelphia: J. Y. Humphreys; Harrisburg: Clyde and Williams, 1844.
Early Saints understood a biblical prophecy concerning “the stick of Ephraim” to be a reference to the Book of Mormon. This wording comes from Ezekiel 37:16–17, which is referred to in 2 Nephi, chapter 3, in the Book of Mormon. (See Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 66–68 [2 Nephi chap. 3]; and “The Book of Mormon,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Jan. 1833, [1].)
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
In a later history, JS recorded that John the Baptist ordained him and Cowdery to the Aaronic Priesthood on 15 May 1829. (JS History, vol. A-1, 17–18.)
JS History / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1838–1856. Vols. A-1–F-1 (original), A-2–E-2 (fair copy). Historian’s Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, boxes 1–7. The history for the period after 5 Aug. 1838 was composed after the death of Joseph Smith.
See Leviticus chap. 8.
See Malachi 4:5–6.
See, for example, Genesis chap. 17; 22:15–18; chap. 24; 26:1–4; 28:14; 35:9–13; 48:34; Psalm 105:9; Galatians 3:16; and “The Book of Abraham,” Times and Seasons, 1 Mar. 1842, 3:705–706 [Abraham 2:6–11].
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
The Instruction on Priesthood, prepared by JS and probably Oliver Cowdery in early 1835, explained that apostles were “special witnesses of the name of Christ, in all the world: thus differing from other officers in the church in the duties of their calling.” (Instruction on Priesthood, between ca. 1 Mar. and ca. 4 May 1835 [D&C 107:23].)
See Account of John, Apr. 1829–C, in Doctrine and Covenants 33:2, 1835 ed. [D&C 7:7]. Beginning with the version of this revelation in the 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants, a phrase was added indicating that Peter, James, and John were given the “power and the keys of this ministry until” Christ came again. The original iterations of this account, as recorded in Revelation Book 1 (1831) and the Book of Commandments (1833), do not contain the statement about keys. (Account of John, Apr. 1829–C [D&C 7]; Account of John, Apr. 1829–C, in Book of Commandments 6 [D&C 7].)
The first insertion ends here.
The second insertion begins here and continues through the phrase “as touching all things whatsoever ye ask of me, and.”