Footnotes
A Historian’s Office inventory includes the following under the entry for 1842: “A religious proclamation by the Prophet.” That entry likely refers to this document. (“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [2], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.)
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 456, 458; Woodruff, Journal, 22 Jan. 1865.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Footnotes
Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:1–6].
Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:7–8].
Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:12–14].
Thompson apparently died from a severe lung infection. (Letter to Oliver Granger, 30 Aug. 1841; see also Minutes and Discourse, 1–5 Oct. 1841.)
When Thomas Bullock filed the proclamation featured here, he wrote on the document that it was created “about, 1842,” but that appears to be a mistake.
Richards wrote the title of the proclamation and a few sentences about it on the verso of a 22 December 1841 revelation appointing John Snider to raise funds for the construction of the Nauvoo temple and the Nauvoo House, which the 19 January 1841 revelation commanded to be built. (See Revelation, [Nauvoo, IL], ca. 22 Dec. 1841, Revelations Collection, CHL.)
In April 1845, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles published a sixteen-page proclamation that was far more expansive and wide-ranging than JS’s 1841 proclamation. (Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints [New York: Prophet Office, 1845].)
[Pratt, Parley P.] Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-Day Saints. New York: Samuel Brannan and Parley P. Pratt, 1845.
Habakkuk 3:3.
See 2 Thessalonians 2:8.
JS wrote an open letter in late May 1841 requesting that the Saints come and help develop the community in Nauvoo and Lee County, Iowa Territory, and build the Nauvoo temple and Nauvoo House. (See Letter to the Saints Abroad, 24 May 1841.)
The “pencil of Raphahel” likely refers to the sketches of Italian artist Raphael that were used in nineteenth-century art instruction or art history books. The phrase was also used colloquially and poetically to describe beautiful artwork. (Ralph, School of Raphael, 34; Orloff, “Painters and Paintings of Italy,” 157; “Carton VII. Paul Preaching at Athens,” in Cartons of Raphael D’Urbino, [37]; “John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 18 July 1794,” in Hogan et al., Adams Family Correspondence, 10:211–214; D. L. I. Hillhouse, “The Beggar of Florence,” New-York Weekly Whig, 3 Aug. 1839, 177.)
Ralph, Benjamin. The School of Raphael; or, The Student's Guide to Expression in Historical Painting. . . . London: John Boydell, 1825.
Orloff, Gregoire. “The Painters and Paintings of Italy.” In Greenbank’s Periodical Library, containing in the Cheapest Possible Form, a Republication of New and Standard Works, 145–164. Vol. 3. Philadelphia: T. K. Greenbank, 1833.
The Cartons of Raphael D’Urbino, Viz., 1. The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. 2. Christ’s Charge to Peter . . . . London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1809.
Hogan, Margaret A., C. James Taylor, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, Sara B. Sikes, Gregg L. Lint, and Sara Georgini, eds. Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 10: January 1794–June 1795. Vol. 10 of the Adams Family Correspondence series of The Adams Papers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
New-York Weekly Whig. New York City. 1838–1839.
See Revelation 18:16; and Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:26–27].
The Book of Mormon tells of “writing which was upon the wall of the temple, which was written by the finger of God.” (Book of Mormon, 1840 ed., 242 [Alma 10:2].)
The “Papal See” or “Holy See” denotes the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome. (“Holy See,” in Modern Catholic Encyclopedia, 391.)
The Modern Catholic Encyclopedia. Edited by Michael Glazier and Monika K. Hellwig. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1994.
The “Patriarch” likely refers to the president or presiding authority of the Eastern Orthodox church. The First Council of Constantinople was held in 381 AD, and the Nicene Creed was amended and ratified at the council. (Catholic Encyclopedia, 1:710; 11:549; Ayres, Nicaea and Its Legacy, 254–255.)
The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church. Edited by Charles G. Herbermann, Edward A. Pace, Condé B. Pallen, Thomas J. Shahan, and John J. Wynne. 15 vols. New York: Robert Appleton, 1907–1914.
Ayres, Lewis. Nicaea and Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
JS regularly criticized Protestantism; in fact, one scholar has posited that Latter-day Saint and Protestant identities were defined by opposing one another in the nineteenth century. (See, for example, Letter to Noah C. Saxton, 4 Jan. 1833; JS History, vol. A-1, [1]–4; and Fluhman, “A Peculiar People,” 1–8.)
Fluhman, J. Spencer. “A Peculiar People”: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
See 2 Corinthians 6:17.