Apparatus

Every point where the reports differ in doctrinal claim, historical detail, rhetorical force, scribal correction, or in what the printed text made of them. T is recorded in every entry and is never corroboration.

V080 S24omission

to let you know I am not a fallen prophet—

Bto let you know I am not a fallen prophet—

W(I wish I had 40 days to talk)

Rom.

CI would let you know that I am not a fallen prophet.

TI would let you know that I am not a fallen prophet.

Bullock and Clayton both attach a denial of the charge of fallen prophet to the wish for forty days; Woodruff has the wish alone, parenthetically. Smith records that the charge was circulating in Nauvoo in April 1844, largely over polygamy and over the doctrines of this sermon. Woodruff keeps the wish for forty days and the surrounding argument in full, so the loss of the denial is not compression of the passage but the dropping of its most personal and most topical clause.

Smith, p. 292 n. 54

V087 S26omission

All will suffer untill they obey Christ himself,

Bom.

WAll will suffer untill they obey Christ himself,

Rwill suffer in the eternal world until he will be exalted.—

Com.

Tom.

Woodruff and Richards both terminate postmortem suffering — in obedience to Christ, or in exaltation. Bullock and Clayton have no such limit and leave the damned's state open. Bullock and Clayton are both full at this point — Bullock runs to the salvation wrought out for all men, Clayton to the same — so their silence about a limit is not a matter of length; either they did not hear one or none was stated. Neither clause reached T.

Smith, p. 296