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The barges in which his people were to cross the ocean were prepared; but he had been unable to devis

man; therefore touch these stones, O Lord, with Thy finger, and prepare them that they may shine forth in darkness; and the

, one by one with His finger; and the veil was taken from off the eyes of the brother of Jared, and he saw the finger of the Lord; and it

od, seems not to have suspected before this time that God and Jesus Christ had bodies of flesh as material {48} and tangible as man's. What the brother

the Lord, and I feared lest He should smite me; f

er wonders. The Lord commended him for his great faith, which had made it possible for him to see the finger o

he Son. In me shall all mankind have light, and that eternally, even they who shall believe on my name; and they shall become my sons and my daughters. And never have I shown myself unto man

an have I created after the body of my spirit; and even as I appear unt

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sh upon the earth. But what kind of existence was this pre-existence? It was an existence in the spirit state. And the spirit body of Jesus is in form and shape just like the mortal body; so that, when Jesus helped to form man. He formed him after the image of His own body. This is the second great truth we learn from th

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d that He had a spirit of the same form and shape as His mortal body, and that He was chos

e prayed, "And now, O Father, glorify Thou me with {50} Thine own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was." And at another time He asked, "What and if Ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where He was before? I came forth from the Fathe

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eplied, "Verily, verily, I say unto you. Before Abraham was I am." The answer provoked the Jews, and they took up ston

here discussed in this chapter. "As Jesus passed by, He saw a man which was blind from his birth. And

ned; and through their sin, they might have brought blindness upon their son. But since he was born blind, how could the affliction have come as the result of his own sin? In only one

her hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." Jesus, then, did not rebuke them. He, too, accepted the doctrine. At le

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