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[…] wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish.” Also I say, with an English teacher’s smugness, that the Book of Mormon just doesn’t sound as good as the Bible. Joseph […]
[…] own time and place. I have fair skin, so I always assumed he did too. I speak English, so when I “hear” the Sermon on the Mount in my head, I hear it spoken […]
[…] understanding” (v. 24). It is reasonable to assume that Joseph Smith’s language was heavily influenced by the English of the King James Version, so we can expect that by speaking “after the manner of […]
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[…] seek remunerative employment. But Church-related projects were another matter. It was hard to participate in a ground breaking or help a congregation to start a building fund without making a contribution; a thousand dollars […]
[…] like the elders did. A few days after our baptism, Allen and Johnson came by with the news that they had rented a house where they could live and hold meetings. Mother asked them […]
[…] of this world and rulers in the kingdom. Matthew, in contrast to Luke’s conservatism with regard to breaking up and redistributing Q material, has, in the process of developing five major dominical discourses (Matt. […]
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