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Vision, 16 February 1832, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 76]

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“The Vision,” [
Hiram Township

Area settled by immigrants from Pennsylvania and New England, ca. 1802. Located in northeastern Ohio about twenty-five miles southeast of Kirtland. Population in 1830 about 500. Population in 1840 about 1,100. JS lived in township at home of John and Alice...

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, Portage Co., OH, 16 Feb. 1832]. Version copied [ca. Apr. 1832] in Gilbert, Notebook, pp. [63]–[75]; handwriting of
Sidney Gilbert

28 Dec. 1789–29 June 1834. Merchant. Born at New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut. Son of Eli Gilbert and Lydia Hemingway. Moved to Huntington, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; to Monroe, Monroe Co., Michigan Territory, by Sept. 1818; to Painesville, Geauga Co...

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; Revelations Collection, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Revelation, 27 Feb. 1833 [D&C 89].

Historical Introduction

See Historical Introduction to Vision, 16 Feb. 1832 [D&C 76].
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Vision, 16 February 1832 [D&C 76]

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We Joseph &
Sidney [Rigdon]

19 Feb. 1793–14 July 1876. Tanner, farmer, minister. Born at St. Clair, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Son of William Rigdon and Nancy Gallaher. Joined United Baptists, ca. 1818. Preached at Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and vicinity, 1819–1821. Married Phebe...

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being in the Spirit on the sixteenth of February in the year of our Lord 1832 & through the power of the Spirit our eyes were opened & our understandings were enlightened so as to see & understand the things of God, even things which were from the beginning before the world was, which was
ordained

The conferral of power and authority; to appoint, decree, or set apart. Church members, primarily adults, were ordained to ecclesiastical offices and other responsibilities by the laying on of hands by those with the proper authority. Ordinations to priesthood...

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of the Father, through his only begotten Son, who was in the Bosom of the Father; even from the beginning, of whom we bear record, & the record which we bear in the fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is in the Son, whom we saw, & with whom we conversed in the heavenly vision. For as we sat doing the work of
translation

To produce a text from one written in another language; in JS’s usage, most often through divine means. JS considered the ability to translate to be a gift of the spirit, like the gift of interpreting tongues. He recounted that he translated “reformed Egyptian...

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, which the Lord had appointed unto us, we came to the 29th. verse of the fifth chap. of John which was given unto us thus (speaking of the resurrection of the dead) ‘who shall hear the voice of the Son of man & shall come forth, they who have done good in the resurrection of the just, and they who have done evil in the resurrection of the unjust. Now this caused us to marvel for it was given us of the spirit & while we meditated upon these things The Lord touched the eyes of our understandings & they were opened & the glory of the Lord shone round about & we beheld the glory of the Son on the right hand of the Father & received of his fullness & saw the holy
Angels

Being who acts as a minister and messenger between heaven and earth. JS taught that angels were individuals who “belonged to this earth”; those who had already lived on earth were often resurrected beings. In addition to giving instruction, direction, and...

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& they who are sanctified before his Throne worshipping God & the [p. [64]]
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