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Excellent! It fills one with the the hope of which it speaks. Thank you!
Thanks for the comment, John. Good to hear from you. You are right about the relevance of the “tongue of angels,” and I referenced Neal Rappleye’s full article on the subject in note 94 (https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/with-the-tongue-of-angels-angelic-speech-as-a-form-of-deification/) but somehow the full citation got left out of the published version. Will try to have that fixed.
Yes it is there note 94.. I just read it again, I do remember reading it years ago … good stuff
Blessings
John
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful article. Faith, Hope, and Charity. I have always enjoyed Bro. Bradshaw’s scholarship and faith. As I read his extensive article, my mind kept thinking of Nephi’s comment of “speaking with the tongues of angels”. A nice summary was made by Scripture Central of that notion. https://scripturecentral.org/knowhy/what-is-it-to-speak-with-the-tongue-of-angels. I fully agree that the prophet was aware of temple ideas long before Nauvoo. The Book of Mormon clearly was a “school master” for the prophet
Thanks, Theodore. Nice to hear from you.