Footnotes

1. [1]

   Minute Book 1, 2 Feb. 1833.

2. [2]

   Revelation, 8 Mar. 1833 [D&C 90:12–13].

3. [3]

   According to historian Bruce Metzger, “From the point of view of those who approved of these books, they were ‘hidden’ or withdrawn from common use because they were regarded as containing mysterious or esoteric lore, too profound to be communicated to any except the initiated. From another point of view, however, it was held that such books deserved to be ‘hidden’ because they were spurious or heretical.” (Metzger, Introduction to the Apocrypha, 5.)

   Metzger, Bruce M. An Introduction to the Apocrypha. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957.

4. [4]

   Metzger, Introduction to the Apocrypha, 183.

   Metzger, Bruce M. An Introduction to the Apocrypha. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957.

5. [5]

   “Introduction to the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books,” New Oxford Annotated Bible, 3–6.

   The New Oxford Annotated Bible. Edited by Michael D. Coogan. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

6. [6]

   News Item, Kent and Essex Mercury, 19 Sept. 1826, [4], italics in original.

   Kent and Essex Mercury. London. 1822–1828.

7. [7]

   Browne, History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 360–365.

   Browne, George. The History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, from Its Institution in 1804, to the Close of Its Jubilee in 1854. Vol. 1. London: Bagster and Sons, 1859.

8. [8]

   “American Bible Society,” Vermont Chronicle (Bellows Falls), 23 May 1828, 81.

   Vermont Chronicle. Bellows Falls, VT. 1826–1828; Windsor, VT. 1828–1862.

9. [9]

   “Evidences of Divine Revelation,” Observer and Telegraph (Hudson, OH), 26 Apr. 1832, [3].

   Observer and Telegraph. Hudson, OH. 1830–1833.

10. [10]

    William Craig Brownlee, New York City, NY, to “Doctors Power, Varela, and Levins,” 18 Feb. 1833, in Brownlee, Letters in the Roman Catholic Controversy, 11.

    Brownlee, William Craig. Letters in the Roman Catholic Controversy. New York: By the author, 1834.

11. [11]

    Revelation, Apr. 1829–A [D&C 6:26–27].

12. [12]

    Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 30 [1 Nephi 13:26]; see also 29–30 [1 Nephi 13:20–29].

13. [13]

    JS History, vol. A-1, 80–81; see also Old Testament Revision 1, pp. 13–19 [Moses chap. 7].

14. [14]

    Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson Co., MO, 25 June 1833.

15. [15]

    “Hosea Chapter III,” The Evening and the Morning Star, July 1832, [6].

    The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.

16. [16]

    “The Book of Esther,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Jan. 1833, [6].

    The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.

17. [17]

    Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson Co., MO, 25 June 1833.