[726] Matt. xii, 22-30; Mark iii, 22; Luke xi, 15. See "Jesus the Christ," p. 265.

[727] Matt. xi, 9.

[728] John x, 41.

[729] Luke vii, 30.

[730] Sec Note 7.

[731] See Note 1.

[732] I Cor. xi, 25; see also Jer. xxxi, 31.

[733] John v, 39; Acts xvii, 11.

[734] Luke xxiv, 44.

[735] Deut. xxxi, 9, 24-26.

[736] Deut. xvii, 18.

[737] Joshua xxiv, 26.

[738] I Sam. x, 25.

[739] Isaiah xxxiv, 16.

[740] II Chron. xxxiv, 14-15; see also Deut. xxxi, 26.

[741] II Kings xxii.

[742] Ezra i, 1-3.

[743] See Ezra vii, 12-14.

[744] The Book of Ezra.

[745] This historical information is given in certain of the apocryphal works; see II Esdras.

[746] Mal. iii, iv.

[747] See Note 2.

[748] See Note 3.

[749] Ezra vi, 18; vii, 6; Neh. viii, 1; John vii, 19.

[750] As stated, the Hagiographa, or "sacred writings," are generally understood to include the five poetical works of the Old Testament. By some authorities, the list is extended to include all the books mentioned in the Talmud as hagiographa; viz., Ruth, Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Lamentations, and Daniel.

[751] See Note 4.

[752] See Notes 5 and 6.

[753] See Tregelles' "Historic Evidence of the Origin ... of the Books of the New Testament," p. 12—.

[754] See Eusebius, "Ecclesiastical History," iii, 25.

[755] See Eusebius, book iv.

[756] Eusebius iv, 26.

[757] Compare John v, 39.

[758] See Note 7.

[759] I Nephi v, 10-13.

[760] See I Nephi xiii, 21-23.

[761] I Nephi xx-xxi; II Nephi vii-viii; xii-xxiv.

[762] I Nephi x, 4-5; xi-xiii; xiv; II Nephi ix, 5; x, 3; xxv, 26; xxvi, 24.

[763] Mosiah iii; iv, 3.

[764] Mosiah xiii-xvi.

[765] Helaman xiv, 12.

[766] III Nephi ix-xxvi; compare for New Testament references with Matthew v-vii etc.; and for Old Testament mention with Isaiah liv; Malachi iii-lv.

[767] See pages 10, 17.

[768] Pearl of Great Price: Extr. Hist. of Joseph Smith, 34-35.

[769] See Note 1.

[770] See II Kings xxv, 7.

[771] Omni i, 12-19.

[772] I Nephi ix; xix, 1-5; II Nephi v, 30; Jacob i, 1-4; Words of Mormon i, 3-7.

[773] I Nephi ix, 3.

[774] Words of Mormon i, 11; Mormon i, 1-4; iv, 23.

[775] III Nephi v, 8-11.

[776] III Nephi v, 14-19.

[777] Words of Mormon i, 7.

[778] I Nephi ix, 5.

[779] Doctrine and Covenants, x.

[780] Doc. and Cov. x. 1; xvii, 1; cxxx, 8, 9; Mos. viii, 13-19; Ether iii, 23-28.

[781] Isaiah xxix, 11.

[782] See page 266.

[783] See Note 2.

[784] II Nephi xi, 3; xxvii, 12-13; Ether v, 3-4; see also Doc. and Cov. v, 11-15; xvii, 1-9.

[785] Doc. and Cov. xvii, 6; xx, 8.

[786] II Nephi v, 32; Alma lxiii, 12; Mormon i, 3.

[787] See History of Joseph Smith, June, 1829.

[788] See Note 3.

[789] II Nephi xi, 3.

[790] See Note 4.

[791] Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon, Orson Pratt's Works, p. 236 (1891, Utah ed.)

[792] Pearl of Great Price: Moses vii, 59-62.

[793] Psalms lxxxv, 11.

[794] Isa. xiv, 8.

[795] Ezek. xxxvii, particularly verses 15-20.

[796] See a corresponding use of the word "roll" in Jeremiah xxxvi, 1, 2; and its synonym "book" in verses 8, 10, 11, and 13.

[797] Compare with Lehi's prediction made to his son Joseph, II Nephi iii, 12.

[798] Ezek. xxxvii, 19.

[799] Verse 21.

[800] See lecture on "Gathering" in connection with Article 10, page 341.

[801] Isaiah xxix, 4—read verses 1-6.

[802] Orson Pratt, Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon, pp. 293-294 (Utah ed., 1891). For details of fulfillment of part of the prophecy, see III Nephi viii-ix.

[803] Isaiah xxix, 11-12.

[804] See pp. 273-274.

[805] See Note 1.

[806] II Nephi iii, 11-13.

[807] II Nephi xxix, 3; read the chapter.

[808] Verse 8.

[809] Verses 10 and 12.

[810] Acknowledgments.—Many of the citations which follow, used in connection with the extra-scriptural evidence supporting the Book of Mormon, have been brought together by writers among our people, particularly by Elder George Reynolds (see his lectures as specified where quoted); also series of articles entitled "American Antiquities," in Millennial Star, Liverpool, vol. xxi, by Moses Thatcher (see a series of articles on "The Divine Origin of the Book of Mormon," in Contributor, Salt Lake City, vol. ii); and by Elder Edwin F. Parry (see tract, "A Prophet of Latter-days," Liverpool, 1898).

[811] Priest, American Antiquities, 1834, p. 219.

[812] Schoolcraft's Ethnological Researches, vol. iii (1853).

[813] Extract from lecture by Prof. Waterman, delivered in Bristol, England, 1849; quoted in pamphlet by Edwin F. Parry, A Prophet of Latter Days (Liverpool, 1898).

[814] Pritchard, National History of Man (London, 1845).

[815] Moses Thatcher, Contributor, vol. ii, p. 227, Salt Lake City, 1881.

[816] See Note 2.

[817] Moses Thatcher, Contributor, vol. ii, p. 228.

[818] John T. Short, North Americans of Antiquity, p. 204 (Harper Bros., New York; 2nd ed., 1888). See also Contributor (Salt Lake City, vol. ii, p 259).

[819] Putnam, Prehistoric Remains in the Ohio Valley, Century Magazine, March 1890.

[820] See Harper's Weekly (New York), October, 1897; article by Henry C. Walsh.

[821] See Note 3.

[822] Chevalier Boturini; he spent several years investigating the antiquities of Mexico and Central America, and collected many valuable records, of most of which he was despoiled by the Spanish; he published a work on the subject of his studies in 1746.

[823] See Note 4.

[824] Baldwin, Ancient America (Harper Bros., New York, 1871).

[825] Clavigero, quoted by Prof. Short in North Americans of Antiquity.

[826] Lord Kingsborough, Mexican Antiquities (1830-37.)

[827] Bernardo de Sahagun, Historia Universal de Nueva Espana.

[828] W. H. Prescott, Conquest of Mexico (see pp. 463-64).

[829] Schoolcraft, Ethnological Researches (1851); see vol. i.

[830] Squiers, Antiquities of the State of New York, 1851.

[831] Adair, History of the American Indians, London, 1775.

[832] See Bancroft's Native Races, etc., vols, iii and v; Donnelly's Atlantis, p. 391 (1882).

[833] John T. Short, North Americans of Antiquity (1888).

[834] Extract from lecture by Prof. Waterman, delivered in Bristol, England, 1849; quoted in pamphlet by Edwin F. Parry, A Prophet of Latter Days, Liverpool, 1898.

[835] Lord Kingsborough.

[836] Donnelly's Atlantis, p. 144.

[837] Tract, A Prophet of Latter Days, by Edwin F. Parry, p. 106.

[838] See Pres. John Taylor's Mediation and Atonement, p. 201.

[839] Kingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico.

[840] Rosales, History of Chile. See Pres. Taylor's Mediation and Atonement, p. 202.

[841] Prescott, Conquest of Mexico, p. 465.

[842] Mediation and Atonement, p. 201; see Note 5.

[843] Lord Kingsborough, Antiquities of Mexico; see quotations by Pres. John Taylor, Mediation and Atonement, p. 202.

[844] Baldwin's Ancient America, p. 56; see citations of conclusions regarding the characteristics of aboriginal Americans by Bradford, in the same work.

[845] The same.

[846] Adair's History of the American Indians, London, 1775.

[847] I Nephi i, 2.

[848] Mosiah i, 4.

[849] Mormon ix, 32.

[850] Dr. August Le Plongeon, in Review of Reviews, July, 1895.

[851] Quarterly Review, October, 1836; abstracted in Millennial Star, vol. xxi, p. 467.

[852] Mormon ix, 32-33. In connection with this important subject see articles entitled "A Study in American-Hebraic Names" by Thos. W. Brookbank, Improvement Era, vol. xx.

[853] Reynolds' lecture, The Language of the Book of Mormon.

[854] See an instructive series of articles in Improvement Era, Salt Lake City, vol. xvii, by Thomas W. Brookbank, entitled "Hebrew Idioms and Analogies in the Book of Mormon."

[855] Moroni x, 4-5.

[856] See Notes 1 and 3.

[857] Numb. xii, 5-8.

[858] See pp. 35-38 and Lecture xii.

[859] Doc. and Cov. lxviii, 4.

[860] Amos iii, 7; see also I Nephi xxii, 2.

[861] Psalms xxv, 14.

[862] John xv, 14-15.

[863] Gen. ii, 15-20; Pearl of Great Price: Moses iii, 16.

[864] Pearl of Great Price: Moses v, 4-5; see also Doc. and Cov., Lect. on Faith ii, 19-25.

[865] Gen. v, 18-24.

[866] Jude 14.

[867] Pearl of Great Price: Moses vi, vii.

[868] Gen. xvii, xviii; Pearl of Great Price: Book of Abraham.

[869] Exodus iii, 2-6.

[870] Exodus iv, 16; vii, 1.

[871] John xii, 49-50.

[872] John v, 30.

[873] John xiv, 10, 31.

[874] I Corinthians ii, 10-12.

[875] Rev. i, 1.

[876] Exo. xxi; Lev. i; Deut. xii.

[877] Matt. v, 17-48.

[878] See Lecture x, page 184.

[879] Luke i, 13-18.

[880] John xv; Acts i, 12-26.

[881] Acts xx, 28; I Tim. iv, 14; Titus i, 5.

[882] Acts ii, 39.

[883] Rom. x, 12; Gal. iii, 28; Col. iii, 11.

[884] Rom. iii, 22.

[885] Rev. xxii, 18-19; see also Doc. and Cov. xx, 35.

[886] Deut. iv, 2; xii, 32.

[887] II Tim. iii, 15.

[888] II Tim. iii, 16-17.

[889] Acts xx, 18-27.

[890] Luke xxiv, 49.

[891] Matt. xxviii, 20; see also Mark xvi, 20.

[892] Zech. xiii, 2-4.

[893] See Note 2.

[894] Prov. xxix, 18.

[895] John ix, 28-29.

[896] Rev. xiv, 6.