Footnotes
See Revelation, 20 July 1831 [D&C 57]; Revelation, 27–28 Dec. 1832 [D&C 88:119]; Letter to William W. Phelps, 11 Jan. 1833; and Revelation, 26 Apr. 1838 [D&C 115].
Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:2, 27].
News Item, Nauvoo Neighbor, 14 June 1843, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
News Item, Nauvoo Neighbor, 14 June 1843, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Designing a sermon around a passage of scripture rather than a topic was referred to among Christian preachers as expository preaching. (Sturtevant, Preacher’s Manual, 1:68; Stowe, “On Expository Preaching,” 384.)
Sturtevant, S. T. The Preacher’s Manual; or, Lectures on Preaching. . . . 2nd ed. 2 vols. London: Richard Baynes, 1834.
Stowe, Calvin Ellis. “On Expository Preaching and the Principles Which Should Guide Us in the Exposition of Scripture.” Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer 5, no. 18 (Apr. 1835): 384–402.
For more information on Richards’s note-taking methodology, see Historical Introduction to Discourse, 4 July 1843.
Burgess’'s account is not dated, but it, along with another undated account of a discourse that follows it in his journal, was placed between accounts of JS’s discourses than can be securely dated 21 May and 23 July 1843. For a discussion of the known discourses JS delivered between these dates, see Historical Introduction to Discourse, between 11 June and 23 July 1843.
See Matthew 23:14, 23.
See Luke 11:46.
See 2 Corinthians 12:2. On 17 May 1843, JS told a congregation, “Paul had seen the third heavens and I more.” (Discourse, 17 May 1843–A.)
See 1 Corinthians 15:41.
See John 14:2. On 30 January 1842, JS stated that “their were many mansions” in the afterlife, “even 12 from the abode of Devils to the Celestial glory.” (Discourse, 30 Jan. 1842.)
Historically, Catholic teaching had promulgated the belief in purgatory, a middle state that followed mortal life where souls would be purified before going to heaven. Most Protestants rejected this notion due to its connection with indulgences and papal authority. However, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, taught that there was a middle state in which individuals awaited their final judgment, but people in that state were impotent to change the standing they had achieved in life. A passage in the Book of Mormon also accepted an intermediary state, with “the spirits of those who are righteous” going to “paradise” while “the spirits of the wicked” are “cast out into outer darkness,” where they await the resurrection. (Book of Mormon, 1840 ed., 326 [Alma 40:12–13]; see also Walls, Purgatory, chaps. 1–2; Works of the Reverend John Wesley, 2:415–423; and Blythe, “Ann Booth’s Vision,” 112–116.)
Walls, Jerry L. Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M. Edited by John Emory. 7 vols. New York: J. Emory and B. Waugh, 1831.
Blythe, Christopher James. “Ann Booth’s Vision and Early Conceptions of Redeeming the Dead among Latter-day Saints.” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 2 (2017): 105–122.