Brigham Young: Sermon on Mormon Governance

Glossary

• adulterated corrupted, mixed with impurities
• apostatizes abandons beliefs
• begat to father, or make children
• Chief Magistrate the president
• covenants agreements, specifically between God and his people
• Gentilea Christian (as opposed to a Jew)
• house of Esau possibly the Edomites, the descendants of the biblical figure Esau, who, according to the biblical book of Obadiah, incur God’s wrath for their sins
• “if the Saints are let alone ...” a very loose quotation from the Gospel of John 11:47–49
• “I will make thine officers peace …”quotation from Isaiah 60:17
• Jehovah God
• John the Revelator also called John of Patmos, the author of the biblical Book of Revelation
• Mahometan Muslim
• Mount Zion a hill just outside of Jerusalem in Israel, with Zion becoming a figure of speech for all of Israel
• New Jerusalem literally or figuratively, the city God will prepare for his saints
• telestial the lowest of the three heavenly kingdoms
• theocracy rule by God through a state-instituted church
• “They have transgressed the laws …” from Isaiah 24:5