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==Question: Could Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War'' have given Joseph Smith the idea of using brass plates as a way of recording information?== | ==Question: Could Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War'' have given Joseph Smith the idea of using brass plates as a way of recording information?== |
17 Behold, our father Jacob also testified concerning a remnant of the seed of Joseph. And behold, are not we a remnant of the seed of Joseph? And these things which testify of us, are they not written upon the plates of brass which our father Lehi brought out of Jerusalem?
The Late War 36 (p. 134) off-site
26 But the imaginary evils which the children of men commit are oftentimes graven in brass, whilst their actual good deeds are written in sand.
1 And it came to pass that the Lord commanded me, wherefore I did make plates of ore that I might engraven upon them the record of my people. And upon the plates which I made I did engraven the record of my father, and also our journeyings in the wilderness, and the prophecies of my father; and also many of mine own prophecies have I engraven upon them.
27 And they brought a record with them, even a record of the people whose bones they had found; and it was engraven on plates of ore.
The Late War 31 (p. 112) off-site
33 Likewise, the people gave him much silver plate, with gravings thereon, mentioning his deeds.
One critic of the Church misinterprets this data to mean that both books talk about "Brass plates". [2] Although both books talk of "engraving" records, The Late War makes no mention of "brass plates".
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