Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Arch S. Reynolds (1957) on JST 1 Corinthians 15:40

  

=40th Also Celestial bodies, and bodies Terrestrial, and bodies Telestial; but the glory of the Celestial, one[,]<;> and [o]<t>he Terrestrial, another[,]<;> and the Telestial, another.



NT MS 2, pp. 129-30:

 




 

 

The word telestial is, as far as we know, a coined word by Joseph Smith. Joseph received the vision of the glories (See Doctrine and Covenants 76); while translating the Gospel of John, so when he came to the Corinthians he inserted the third glory into the above passage as his vision taught him. It seems, however, that Joseph was translating Corinthians in January 1832 but he did not receive the vision of the glories until February 16, 1832. (Arch S. Reynolds, A Study of Joseph Smith’s Bible Revisions: Its Relation to Other Versions and a History of Its Coming Forth [Springville, Utah: Arch S. Reynolds, 1957], 138)