Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Glossary

• Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as also Moses, David and Solomon: the line of patriarchs of the biblical Old Testament
• Aaron: the brother of Moses and the first high priest of the Israelites
• Alpha and Omega: beginning and ending, from the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet
• Gentiles: non-Jews, especially Christians
• Holy Ghost: in Christianity, the third person of the Trinity; representative of God’s spirit in creation
• justification through the grace of our Lord …: the Protestant doctrine that salvation is a gift from God through faith and cannot be earned through good works
• Nathan: an Old Testament prophet
• Paul: an early Christian leader best known for his dramatic conversion to Christianity
• Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham to wife: in Genesis, the incident in which Abraham’s first wife, Sarah, who was barren, gave her servant Hagar to Abraham as a second wife so that he could have children
• Uriah: as recounted in 2 Samuel 11, the husband of Bathsheba, whom King David had killed by putting him in the front line of a battle, so that David could have Uriah’s wife