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A Witness for the Restoration: Essays in Honor of Robert J. Matthews, ed. Kent P. Jackson and Andrew C. Skinner (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007), 337-361. 

Index 

A 

Aaron, son of Mosiah, 140

Abinadi, 102, 137, 174

Abraham: ancestor of Christ, 107, 287; as Elias, 289; as natural patriarch, 291; descendants of,  288; divine election of, 37; eternal inheritance of, 287; faith of, 106, 111; Father of the  Faithful, 285; patriarchal system and, 286; Restoration perspective of, 223; righteousness  and, 95; sacrifice of Isaac and, 158; seed of, 293-94; vision of premortality, 285; works  and belief of, 83-84

Abrahamic covenant: children of, 293-94; eternal increase under, 287; fulfillment of, 287, 290;  Gentiles and, 24-25; marriage and, 288, 290; patriarchal system and, 286; personal  exaltation under, 287; priesthood and, 288; promises of, 37-38, 109,112, 286, 288, 290;  renewed with Isaac, 287; renewed with Jacob, 287; through Abraham and Sarah, 42

accommodation, 194

accountability, 237

Adam: age of, 3, 6, 8; agency of, 241; baptism of family and, 298; head of mortal family, 282;  marriage of, 283; performance of ordinances,158; priesthood of, 8

Adams, Massachussetts, 254, 257

adversary, fiery darts of, 138

age of the Patriarchs: biblical lists, 8; corrections to, 2, 5-7

agency: accountability and, 237; Atonement and, 242; choice and, 236; eternal law and, 236,  238; faith and works and, 243; freedom of belief and, 238; gift of, 237, 247; growth and,  241; Joseph Smith's understanding of, 246; justice and mercy and, 235; knowledge and,  236, 238; mortality and, 241; of hosts of heaven, 240; of humans, 235; opposition and,  234-35; plan of salvation and, 239; postmortal life and, 242; premortality and, 239-40;  repentance and, 243; responsibility and, 237, 238; role of God and Satan, 238;  uncompelled choice and, 236, 238

Alma the Elder: conversion of, 166-67; on one church, 225; word taught by, 141

Alma the Younger: account of events at Ammonihah, 165-66; ministry to Ammonihah, 170-72;  on foreordination, 285; on nourishing the word, 141; plot to overthrow government and,  167; prophecy of Ammonihah's destruction, 170; purposes of preserving the word, 133;  teaching on law and agency, 235; use of the Liahona, 139

Amadon, Ezra, 252-53, 257

Amlici, 168-69

Amlicites, 169

Ammonihah: collapse of prison in, 168; consequences of not following the Lord, 165;  destruction of, 167; experiences of Alma and Amulek at, 166; justice system of, 172-75;  idea of monarchy in, 168-69; Mormon's report of, 166; people of, 137; plot to overthrow  government of Zarahemla and, 166-69

Amulek, 167, 172, 243

Amulonites, 169

Amun-Re, 46, 48

Anabaptists, 215

angels, 131

Apostasy, the, 201, 212, 221

Aquinas, Thomas: definition of faith, 100-101, 117; on moral virtues of Christ, 100-101

Aramaic, 61-62

Arrington, Leonard, 269-70

Articles of Faith, 204, 246

Assyrians, 28

Atonement, the: agency and, 242; be reconciled to Christ through, 157; becoming Saints through,  191; Christ's obedience in performing, 102; hope of salvation and, 191; quintessential  example of faith, 106; redemption through, 205; remission of sins, 111; scope of, 223;  tree of life symbolism, 134

Augustine, 64 

B 

Babylon, city of, 47, 49

Babylonian conquest, 28

Backman, Milton, Jr., 215

Bailey, Elijah, 251-53, 255, 257

Bailey, Jonas, 252

Bailey, Wesley, 255

Balmer, Randall, 211-12

Bangerter, William Grant, 218

baptism: age of accountability and, 297; celestial kingdom and, 207; covenants of, 297-98; for  the dead, 211; of Jesus Christ, 101, 298; ordinance of, 286, 297; symbolic representation  of, 298-99

Barlow, Israel, 261

Bennett, Richard E., 266-67

Benson, Ezra Taft: on blessings of scripture reading, 141-42; on good men outside the Church,  205

Bible: ambiguity of, 210; as word of God, 204; fulness of the gospel and, 205; plain and precious  truths removed from, 203; preservation of, 204; through lens of Book of Mormon, 223; blessings, 14

Bohairic Coptic Version, 82

Book of Mormon: as witness of Christ, 191; authenticity of, 145-46; "book that is sealed," 30;  careful study of, 145; difficult doctrine of, 190; established truth of Bible, 143; "faith in  Christ" versus "faith of Christ," 114-17; gathering of Israel and, 192; "Golden Bible,"  the, 262, 265, 268; importance of, 132-33; importance of the word, 130-31, 134; Israel's  restoration and, 21; "looking beyond the mark," 149; Mormon's "Jew or Gentile"  perspective, 20; nations dwindle in unbelief without, 133; path to exaltation and, 139;  pattern of Church hierarchy established in, 224-25; Phinehas Young and, 263; power to  convert, 193; preservation of the word, 133; proving scriptures are true, 223-24; purpose  of, 144-46; reports of destruction, 165; two churches in, 178

Book of Moses, 6-7

Bowen, Daniel, 267-69

brass plates, 130, 132, 142

Brett, Pliny, 251, 274

Bromley, Daniel, 250

brother of Jared, the, 282

Brown, Pelatiah, 205

Bruce, F. F., 180

Bushman, Richard, 219-20 

C 

Cainan, age of, 4, 6

Campbell, Alexander, 215

Cannon, George Q., 204

Cape Cod, 257

Captain Moroni, 116, 174

celestial kingdom, 207

celestial marriage, 287

Chamberlin (Chamberlain), Solomon: baptized by Joseph Smith, 258; Book of Mormon and,  256, 258, 263-65; Methodist Episcopal Church and, 254; purchase of farm, 254-55;  Reformed Methodist Church and, 254; vision of the Restoration, 256; Youngs'  acquaintance, 263

Chicago Democrat, 246

Christians: believers in the Savior, 202; worship Jesus of Nazareth, 203; defined by creeds, 217

Church of Christ, 215

church of devil, 206

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The: attitude toward nonmembers, 180; enemies of,  181; in Ohio and Missouri, 2; "only true church," 178, 202, 208

Church of the Lamb of God, 190-91

Clement, 63

Code of Hammurabi, 46-47

Codex Bezae Catabrigiensis, 69-70

Columbia Branch, 268-69

commandments, 14, 236

common-stock society, 253, 255-56

conscience, 213

Coptic, 61

Corianton, 141

Corinth, 63

corrections to ages of the Patriarchs: by Joseph Smith, 2, 6-7, 8; correlations to ancient biblical  texts, 7-9; from Adam to Methuselah, 2-3; internal consistency for each Patriarch, 6-7

Council in Heaven: importance of agency, 241; plan presented in, 111; two significant choices  and, 240

covenant of righteousness, 14

Cowdery, Oliver: as scribe of Joseph Smith, 1, 2; "church of the devil" and, 206; handwriting of,  2; Lamanite Mission, 2; vision of Elijah at Kirtland, 289

creation, spiritual before: physical, 281-82, 285

creedalism, 217

creeds: badge of belonging, 217; corruption of, 214; definition of, 214; faith and, 215; First  Vision and, 189-90; Heavenly Father's displeasure with, 217; in Christianity, 215;  motivated by political concerns, 217; post-New Testament, 216

Cumorah, destruction at, 165, 175

Curtis, Enos, 267

Cyprian, 63

Cyrus, 40 

D 

Danites, 245

Dark Ages, 189, 220-22

David, 37, 155

Davidson, Daniel, 251-52

Davis, Ebenezer, 253, 257

Dead Sea Scrolls Genesis texts, 7

death, 235, 242

degrees of glory, 223, 243

devil: church of, 178, 206-7, 190-91; Lucifer's rebellion and, 240; power over wicked, 243;  temptation of, 234-35; will not prevail over Christian Church, 212-13

doctrine, 177, 194

Disciples of Christ, 215

divine election: Abrahamic covenant and, 290; biblical claims of, 33, 35-36; confusion  surrounding, 34; definition of, 33; Hebrew vocabulary used to describe, 35-38; law of,  284; nonbiblical claims of, 33; nonpremortal, 40; of groups, 44; of Jeremiah, 39-40, 282;  of Moses, 37; of non-Israelites, 40; passages illustrating concept of, 38-42; Paul on, 284;  Restoration perspective of, 34, 50-51

doctrinal perspective, 222-23

Douglas, Stephen A., 244

Dunn, James D. G., 94, 96, 112

Dustin, Caleb, 250 

E 

E. B. Grandin Bookstore, 258

Edinburgh, Scotland, 183

Elijah, 288

Elias, 289

Enoch, age of, 4-7

Enos, age of, 4, 6

Erie Canal, 257

eternal life, 235, 242

ethics, versus doctrine, 177

Eve, 241, 283 

F 

faith: in Christ, 113; justified by, 107; principle of creative; power, 103-4; scriptural definition  of, 101; works and, 106, 110, 243

faith of Christ: consistency with Pauline theology, 100; "faith of Christ," 100-102; in Galatians,  105; in Pauline theology, 105; in Romans, 108; justified by, 95-96, 107, 116; role in our  salvation, 94; salvation of Jews and Gentiles through, 109-10; threefold characteristic of,  111

Fall, the, 95, 191, 223, 242

family: basic unit of Church and society, 282-83; command to multiply and replenish, 283, 293;  duties toward children, 293; eternal, 283-84, 287; exaltation of, 284; King Benjamin's  discussion of, 293; obedience to civil law, 300-301; ordained of God, 291

fathers, 291, 303-4

father's blessings, 304

Fayetteville Luminary, 273

First Vision: added perspective of election from, 50; creeds an abomination, 189; "only true and  living church" and, 178, 183-89; Orson Pratt's account of, 183-84; postbiblical creeds an  abomination, 214, 217; "professors" mentioned in, 217-18; response of Methodist  minister to, 218

foreordination: election and, 50; of God's elect, 290; of noble and great ones, 285; of priesthood  holders, 285; of prophets, 282

Free Church, 215 

G 

Gadianton robbers, 140

Garden of Eden, the, 158, 283

gathering of Israel, the: coming forth of the word, 142; Holy Ghost and, 287-88; Israel lost  without, 16; prophecies of Isaiah concerning, 13; return of remnant, 21-22; when it will  occur, 17, 287-88; See also restoration of Israel

Genesis, 2, 3, 281-82

genitive construction: in Book of Mormon, 114-17; in Romans 3:21-31, 110; Paul's use of, 99;  translation of, 93-94, 96

Gentiles: access to covenants and blessings, 19; as "dogs," 180; as nursing fathers and mothers,  24; as "strangers," 19, 25, 28-29; gospel taken to, 64; inclusion in God's house, 19; lost  children among, 19; role in Israel's restoration, 18-20, 21-22

Gifford, Alpheus, 267

God: elect children of, 285; faith in, 102; family ordained by, 291; marriage of Adam and Eve,  283; nature of, 226; of all religions, 226; power of faith, 104; righteousness of, 109-10;  spirit children of, 50, 282, 286; willingness to intervene in history, 166

Golden Rule, 296

gold plates, 184

Gospel of Mark, the, 63

gospel, fulness of: Church based upon, 209; "hobby key" analogy, 161; in Book of Mormon,  140; in scripture, 204-5; Joseph Smith, 218; loss of, in Christian churches, 216-17;  revealed in earliest ages of world, 223

gospel, the, 22, 197

Gospels, the, 62

government: earthly and heavenly, 282; laws of, 300; patriarchal, 283

Greek: early Christian missionaries and, 62-63; language of Roman Empire and, 61; Paul's  Epistle to the Romans and, 62-63; shift to Latin from, 63; text in given preference, 67

Greene, John Portineus, 260, 261, 266, 276

Greene, Rhoda Young, 260

growth, 213-14 

H 

Hammurabi, 43, 44, 46-49, 56

hapax legomena, 69

haplagraphy, 81

Harris, Martin, 133

Hayes, Richard B., 94

Heavenly Father: agency and, 237; Council in Heaven and, 239; Father of all spirits, 282, 286;

Father of Lights, 213; promise to gather Israel, 13

Hebrew Bible: difference from Near Eastern election, 50; doctrine of election, 35; influenced by

Near Eastern practice, 49; passages reflecting Israel's election, 35-37

Hebrew Masoretic Text, 7

Hinckley, Gordon B.: on reading the Book of Mormon, 145; on the "only true and living

church," 227-28

Hooker, Morna, 107

Hopkinton, Massachusetts, 250

Holy Spirit, 131, 238, 243

Howard Coray Autobiography, 244

Hultgren, Arland J., 96

husband, duty of, 292, 303

Hyde, Orson, 245 

I 

Inspired Version, 4-5, 6, 10, 87

iron rod, 134, 138, 145

Isaac, 158, 287

Isaiah: comparison of people to a harlot, 15; covenant family, 17-18; on conditions at time of

Israel's restoration, 17-18; prophecies about Book of Mormon, 23; prophecies of, 13-14; prophecies of destruction, 15; prophecies of the Gentiles, 19-20; prophecies of the Second Coming, 26-27; prophecy of Christ, 180; return of remnant of Israel, 21; saw fulfillment of Moses's warnings, 14; wickedness of contemporaries, 15, 27; words of, 14

Israel: captivity of, 15, 25; divine election of, 35-37, 39; final state of, 27; gathering of, 17-27;

husband-wife analogy, 16; lost identity of, 18; lost without gathering, 16; scattering of, 14-15, 17, 28-29; tithe of people, 16

Israelites, 158 

J 

Jackson County, Missouri, 272

Jacob (Bible): and Esau, 284-85; greater spiritual capacity than Esau, 285; law of election, 284;

renewal of Abrahamic covenant, 287

Jacob (Book of Mormon), 149-53

Jared, age of, 6

Jarom, 115

Jehovah, 39

Jeremiah, 39, 151, 282

Jerome, 65-66, 68

Jerusalem, 165, 175

Jesus Christ: Abrahamic covenant and, 291; as end of the law of Moses, 151; as "chief corner

stone," 153, 222; as the Mediator, 242; as the mark, 157-58, 160-61; as the Word, 129; Atonement and, 242; baptism of, 101, 298; brother of Jared's vision of, 282; Canaanite woman and, 179-80; church of the Lamb, 178; command to search Isaiah's writings, 13; descendant of Abraham, 287; divine sonship of, 212; embodiment of faith, 107; endorsement of Isaiah's writings, 25; faith in Father's plan, 102; ministry among the Nephites, 13, 209; modern political incorrectness of, 177, 180; obedience to Father's will, 101-2; postmortal ministry of, 223; quotation of Isaiah's prophecies, 13; source of the word, 131; teachings and sayings of, 61; tree of life symbolic of, 138

Jews: blindness of, 149, 152, 157, 158; looking away from Christ, 161; rejection of Christ, 152-

53; rejection of gospel, 152

John and Abigail Young family: desires to find God, 258; influence of, 273-74; introduction to

Mormonism, 262-67; move to western New York, 258; move to Whitingham, Vermont, 250

Johnson, Luke Timothy, 214-15

Jonathon, 155

Joseph Smith Sr. family, 257

Joseph Smith Translation (JST): changes to, 2; establishing NT originality, 68; RLDS edited

version, 4-5; See also Inspired Version; Old Testament, Manuscript 1; Old Testament, Manuscript 2

Judgment, the, 145, 242-43

justice, 235

justification: anthropological perspective of, 112; by faith, 107; essential for salvation, 95; faith

of Christ and believer, 108; Fall reversed by, 95; in Book of Mormon, 116; through Christ, 95-96, 111, 113 

K 

Kent, Asa, 250

Kimball, Heber C., 260, 267

Kimball, Spencer W., 292

King Benjamin, 293

King Follett Discourse, 236, 242

King James Version (KJV), 94, 114

King Noah, 137

King Pi, 45, 48

Kingdom of Judah, 152

kingdom of righteousness, 207

Kirtland, Ohio, 288-89

knowledge, 208

Korihor, 174 

L 

Laban, 130

Lake, Elizabeth Matthews, 253

Lake, James, 271-72

Lake, Philomela Smith, 271

Lake, William, 253, 254, 257, 265

Laman and Lemuel, 130

Lamanites, 135, 168, 172

Lamanite Mission, 2

Lamech, 4

Landon, Ezra, 269

last days, the, 287-88

Latin: language of Roman Empire, 61-63; number of New Testament translations in, 67; popular

translation in, 63; predominant use of by Fathers, 63; regional translations in, 63

Latin manuscripts, 82

Latin Versions and New Translation, agreements of: close relationship to Greek text, 85;

grammatical clarification, 77-80, 84; Greek copular, 75-76; "say" to "said," 73-75; shared secondary readings, 85

Latin Versions: definition of, 61-62; purposes of, 70; shared readings with New Translation, 71-

73

Latter-day Saints: as Christians, 201; as Gentiles or scattered Israelites, 20; cooperation within

other churches, 208; do not worship "a different Jesus," 203

law, the: Alma the Younger's teaching on, 235; consequences of actions and, 236; Joseph

Smith's teaching on, 235-36; justification and, 106; of election, 284; plan of salvation and, 186-87; universal, 186

law of Moses, 105, 151, 158

lectio difficilior, 74, 82, 90

Lectures on Faith, 94, 103-4, 216

Lehi: flight from Jerusalem, 152, 163; receiving the word, 130-31; teaching on opposition, 234;

vision of the tree of life, 134-36; witness of Christ, 151

Lehi, son of Helaman, 141, 171

Leningrad Codex, the, 41

Leonard, Lyman, 269

Lewis, C. S., 211, 214

Liahona, 139

light, 208, 213, 214

Light of Christ, 188

Limhi, 174

"looking beyond the mark": cause of blindness, 156-57; distractions from looking, 159; literary

context of, 150-53; relying on false prophets, 163; where to look, 159-60

love, 177, 188, 203, 294

Lucifer, 179, 240-41

Luke, 63

Luther, Martin, 112

Lyons, New York, 257, 263, 265, 272 

M 

MacArthur, John, 211

MacDonald, George, 214

Mahalaleel, age of, 4, 6

Manlius Center, 265

Marduk, 47, 56

mark: as a cause of blindness, 156; as a metaphor, 153-56; as a target, 155; dictionary definitions

of, 154-56, 163; in Book of Mormon, 156; in Old Testament, 155-56; symbolism of, 157-58

marriage: Abrahamic covenant and, 288, 290; celestial, 284, 286, 290; divine institution of, 293;

new and everlasting covenant, 283, 287; of Adam and Eve, 283

Martyn, J. Louis, 113

Matthews, David, 255

Matthews, John, 253

Matthews, Robert J., 6,14

Maxwell, Neal A.: on ecumenicism, 182; on fragments of truth, 51-52; on meaning of tree of

life, 134; on true and living church, 208-9

McConkie, Bruce R.: on Abrahamic covenant, 286; on becoming like Christ, 117; on being

partially Christian, 181; on faith of Christ, 103; on fifth Lecture of Faith, 216; on fulness of gospel in scriptures, 204-5; on Joseph Smith and tribes of Israel, 20; on Lord's word contained in Bible, 204

McConkie, Joseph Fielding: military service of, 182; mission president in Edinburgh, Scotland,

190, 195; sharing the gospel metaphor, 195

McConkie, Oscar W., 297-99

Melchizedek, 171, 286

Mendon, New York, 260, 262, 268, 272

mercy, 235

Mesopotamian texts, 42

Methodist Episcopal Church, 252, 254

Methodist Episcopal elders: Asa Kent, 250; Caleb Dustin, 250; Daniel Bromley, 250; Elijah

Ward, 250; John Tinkham, 250; Phinehas Peck, 250 

Methuselah, age of, 4, 6, 9

Miller, Eleazer, 269

Millet, Artemus, 271

Millet, Robert L., 34-35

missionaries, 62, 193

missionary work, 181, 287

Mormonism, 222-25

Moroni, 142

Mormon (prophet), 133, 142, 165-66

"Mormon's imperative," 165

Morrison, Alexander B., 221-22

mortality, 241

Moses, 14, 37

Mosiah, 172

Mulekites, the, 136

Murray, Fanny Young, 263 

N 

natural man, 191

Nauvoo, 244

Nebuchadnezzar, 163

Nebuchadnezzar II, 40

Nehor, 166, 169

Nephi, 130, 133, 138

Nephi, son of Helaman, 141, 171

New Testament (NT): Church-commissioned translation of, 65; loose or popular translations of,

64; regional and private translations of, 64, 65; scribal correction and harmonization of, 83-84; textual families of, 71; translated by Prophet, 1, 3; translation by Martin Luther, 112; translation into Latin of, 63; vernacular translations of, 64

New Testament (NT), original text of: revealed by Latin Versions and New Translation, 85-86;

revealed by Versions, 62, 68; value of Vetus Latina in establishing, 66-67; Vulgate preferred over Vetus Latina, 68; ways of establishing, 68-71

New Translation: agreement with family of manuscripts, 70-71; difference from Vetus Latina,

72; effort to align Bible with new revelation, 70; establishing NT originality, 70; Latin Versions agreement with, see Latin Versions and New Translation, agreements of; shared readings with Latin Versions, 71-73; See also Inspired Version; Joseph Smith Translation

New York counties: Cayuga, 259; Chenango, 250, 269; Jefferson, 268; Livingston, 262; Monroe,

262, 268; Onondaga, 265; Ontario, 260, 262; Steuben (Schuyler), 260; Tompkins, 261, 269; Wayne, 257, 263

New York towns: Auburn, 259; Aurelius, 259; Cambridge, 253; Canandaigua, 260; Cheshire,

260; Fayetteville, 272; Fort Hamilton, 182; Hector, 261; Hoosick, 253; Lima, 263; Lockport, 257; Lyons, 257, 263, 265, 272; Manlius, 265; Mendon, 260, 262, 268, 272; Oswego, 265; Palmyra, 257-58; Sackett's Harbor, 268; Sherburne, 250, 269; Tyrone, 260; Victor, 262

nonbiblical texts, claims of: divine election in chronological point of election, 45-46; "corrupted

echoes" of biblical claims, 52, 59; differences from the Hebrew Bible, 42-44; election in youth versus in the womb, 45-46; political claims of divine election, 42; preserved in literary historical context, 44; similarity to biblical claims, 51

non-Israelite nations, 55 

O 

Oaks, Dallin H., 221

obedience, 186

objective genitive, 11, 93-94

objective genitive reading, 96

Old Testament, 1, 3, 64

See also Septuagint

Old Testament Manuscript 1 (OT1): change to Moses 8:1, 7; corrections to ages of early

Patriarchs, 2, 3, 6; detail of, 2; end of Malachi, 3; Inspired Version, editing against OT2, 5; Joseph Smith's fourteen changes to, 3-4; revision of Genesis 5, 2

Old Testament Manuscript 2 (OT2), 3

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 7

"only true church": collectively not individually, 226; complete statement in D&C, 225-26; First

Vision and, 178; offensive to some, 187; union and friendship among denominations, 227; what it does not mean, 202-8; what it means, 208-14

opposition, 234

oral accounts of Jesus's life, 61-62

ordinances, 158 

P 

Packer, Boyd K.: "hobby key" analogy, 161; on debt to the Reformers, 221; on fulness of the

gospel, 139-40; on Light of Christ during the Apostasy, 221; on primitive church, 221; on teaching unpopular doctrine, 184-86; on the Church, 182

Palmyra, New York, 257-58

parable of the sower, 135

parable of the wheat and the tares, 190

parenthood, 283

patriarch, 283, 291

patriarch, natural: Abraham as, 291; acting as patriarch, 294; baptism performed by, 297-98;

duties to provide for family, 301-2; duties toward children, 294-96, 302; duties toward wife, 292; father's blessings, 296; head of family, 290; presiding over families, 294-95; protection of family, 303; same blessings as Abraham, 291

patriarchal blessings, 291

patriarchal system, 283, 286

Paul: definite article, inconsistent use of, 97; discussions of justification, 93; instructions to

Corinthian Saints, 82; on Abraham, 83-84; on chosen people, 284; on Church organization, 225; on law of election, 284; on role of women in the Church, 81; proselyting methods of, 64; taught in Greek, 63; theology of, 112-13; use of genitive construction, 99

Paul's Epistle to the Romans, 62

Pauline Theology Group, 93

Paul's epistles: grammatical distinction between genitives, 94, 99-100; theme of justification,

95, 99, 105

Pearl of Great Price, 5-6

Peck, Phinehas, 250

Penn, William, 217

Pennsylvania elders: Alpheus Gifford, 267; Daniel Bowen, 267-68; Eleazer Miller, 267, 270;

Elial Strong, 267-68, 270; Enos Curtis, 267

Pennsylvania towns and counties, 267

Perry, Robert, 271

Peter, Apostle, 63-64, 212

pistis, 93, 98, 101-2

pistis Christou, 108-112, 114

plan of salvation: agency and, 239, 243; Atonement and, 242; Council in Heaven and, 239;

doctrinal consolation of, 223; Joseph Smith's description of, 239; Lucifer's suggestion, 239-40; mortality and, 241; one-third of the hosts of heaven and, 240; postmortal life and, 242; premortality and, 239-41; significant aspects of, 151

Pollard, Paul, 114

postbiblical creeds, 214-17

Pratt, Orson, 183-84

Pratt, Parley P., 219

prayer, 194

premortality: account in Pearl of Great Price, 239-41; divine election and, 50; law of election,

284; Restoration perspective on, 223; spiritual aptitude in, 285

preservation of the word, 132-33

pride, 168

priesthood: Abrahamic covenant and, 288; divine authority of, 222; high priest in, 283; last days  and, 287; order of, 283; patriarch in, 283, 291; restoration of, 222

primitive Christian Church, 209

proclamation on the family, 291-303

promised land, 14, 25, 30-31

pronominal construction, 97-98

prophets: as source of the word, 131; authority to interpret scripture, 211; consequences of

ignoring, 149; doctrinal finality rests with, 209-11; faith in Christ and, 151; Israelites' rejection of, 151; knowledge of Christ and, 150-51, 157, 162; speak in the name of Christ, 196

Ptolemy, 82 

Q 

Quigly, William, 269 

R 

Ramah, 165, 175

Readsborough, Vermont, 249, 250-52, 254

Redemption, 134, 158

Reformed Methodist Church: "Articles for Faith and Practice," 253, 266; common-stock society,

253, 255-56; creation of, 249; decline of, 273; in Upper Canada, 257; influence on the Restoration, 274; influence on the Young family, 273; organizational origins, 251; resolutions of Readsborough, 252; Vermont beginnings, 250-53

Relief Society, 237

Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the (RLDS), 4. See also Community of

Christ

remnant of Israel, 23, 30

repentance, 243

Restoration: began with Joseph Smith's prayer, 194; beginning of gathering of Israel, 22;

formative days surrounding, 274; in the last days, 287; of everlasting gospel, 227; revelations of, 194; sealing powers and, 290

restoration of Israel: countries of, 21; physical gathering, 24; process of, 20; role of the Gentiles

in, 18-20, 21-22; spiritual gathering, 20-21; timing, 17-18, 288

revelation: Church built on, 212-13; Joseph Smith's return to Christian origins of, 219-20;

modern, 196

revelations of the Restoration, 178

Rigdon, Sidney, 1, 219

righteousness, 294, 296

Roberts, B. H., 206-7

Robinson, Stephen, 216

Roman branch demographic, 64

Roman Empire, 61 

S 

Sacred Grove, 194, 196

salvation, 112

Samarian Pentateuch, 7-8

Samuel the Lamanite, 137, 140

sanctification, 115-16

Sarah, wife of Abraham, 38

Satan: alternate plan of, 102; attacks strengths, 160; cannot compel men to do evil, 238; lack of  faith of, 102; never reconciled with Christ, 192; See also Lucifer

Saul, 155

Savior, 240-41

scriptural inerrancy, 203

scriptures, 102, 135

sealing powers, 287, 289-90

Second Coming, 25-26

selfishness, 296

Septuagint, 7-8, 64

Sermon on the Mount, 181

service, 296

Seth, age of, 3, 6-7

Shamash, 43-45, 47

Shearjashub, 20-21

Shepherd of Hermas, 63

Sherem, 137

signs of the last days, 288

sin, 159, 238

Sippar, 43

Smith, Emma, 1

Smith, George Albert, 203

Smith, Hyrum, 177, 258

Smith, Joseph: agency and freedom of belief, 238; as "root of Jesse," 22; began Old Testament

translation, 3; defense of all denominations, 227; degrees of glory and, 243; establishment of priesthood order, 283; finished New Testament translation, 3; freedom of religion, 246; martyrdom of, 177; name known for good and evil, 198; on calling in Council in Heaven, 52; on knowledge of commandments, 236; on liberty of thought, 205; on nature of Heavenly Father, 228; on partial truth of creeds, 218; on truth in Christian denominations, 203; one true church and, 184; Restoration and, 188; restoration of sealing powers to, 289-90; teachings on agency, 233; understanding of heavenly gifts, 233; value of agency and, 244-45

Smith, Joseph F., 51-52

Smith, Joseph, III, 5

Smith, Joseph, Sr., 258

Snow, Erastus, 244

sola scriptura, 211, 215-16, 266

sons of Mosiah, 138, 141, 169

Sorenson, John, 165

South Cortland Luminary, 272

Spirit of Christ, the, 213

spirit, premortal, 282

State Line House, 255

Stevenson, Edward, 8

strengths, 160

strikeouts, 3

Strong, Elial, 267-68

subjective genitive, 94, 98

subjective genitive reading, 96, 99, 112

supplementation, 223

Susa, 43 

T 

target: metaphor of, 159-60; modern bull's-eye and, 161-62; target practice and, 160; types of,

155-56

Targumic approach, 64

Targumim, 65

Taylor, Greer M., 113

Taylor, John: minister who joined the Church, 219; on communion with God in medieval times,

220-21; on martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum, 178, 192; teachings and sayings of Jesus Christ, 61

temptation, 238

Ten Commandments, 194

Tertullian, 63

Tinkham, John, 250

tolerance, 179-81

Tomlinson's Inn, 262

Top, Brent, 201

translations of Jesus's teachings, 61-62

tree of life, 134, 136, 138

tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 241

truth: absolute, 191; Book of Mormon restores, 142; challenges untruth, 197-98; Church adding

on to, 188; definition of true, 208-9; in Christian denominations, 203; more important than harmony, 196; recognition of, 284-85

"two churches only," 190-92 

U 

Upper Canada: Ernestown, Ontario, 264, 270-71; Kingston, Ontario, 264; Loughborough,

Ontario, 264, 270 

V 

Vermont towns: Bennington, 253; Readsborough, 249, 250-52, 254; Shaftsbury, 253, 254

Versions, the: based on Greek, 61-62; hapax legomena, 69; independent of the Latin, 68; variant

readings of and NT originality, 68

Vetus Latina: attempt to circumvent influence of, 65; definition of, 64; often overlooked, 67;

undertaken by Jews, 88; value in establishing NT originality, 66-67

Vulgate followed wording of, 65

Vision of the Redemption of the Dead, 189

Vulgate, the, 65-66 

W 

Ward, Elijah, 250

Wentworth, John, 246

Wesley, John, 221

West Loughborough Branch, 272

Whitingham circuit, 250

Whitingham, Vermont, 250

Whitmer, Christian, 258

Whitmer, David, 206

Whitmer, John, 1-2

Whitney, Orson F., 206

wife, duty of, 292-93, 303

Williams, Sam K., 97

Wood, Abraham, 272

Wood, Daniel, 271-72

word, the: brass plates and, 130; consequences of using, 144; definitions of, 129-30; effects of,

140-42; healing power of, 140; importance of, 132, 134; iron rod as, 134, 138, 145; misuse of, 136-38; preaching of, 140; preservation of, 130, 142; preventing destruction and, 131; promises of Lord concerning, 142; purposes of, 138-40; restore truths in, 142; scriptures as, 135; sources of, 131; spiritual fruits of, 141; treasuring up, 129

Works, Miriam Angeline, 259, 269 

Y 

Young, Abigail (Nabby), 249

Young, Brigham: and his brothers, 259; baptism of, 269, 278; birth of, 250; on "believing more,"

222; on his Methodist experience, 258-59; on John Wesley, 221; on John Young Jr., 261; on Lorenzo Dow Young, 261

Young, Clarissa, 268

Young, John, Jr., 259, 261, 263

Young, John, Sr., 249, 250-51, 260, 263, 268

Young, Joseph, 259-60, 263-64, 268-69, 271

Young, Lorenzo Dow, 259, 261, 276

Young, Miriam, 268

Young, Phinehas Howe, 259-60, 263, 267, 268 

Z 

Zarahemla, 168, 171

Zeezrom, 169, 173

Zion, 7, 21

Zoram, 130

Zoramites, 137

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