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BYU Studies publishes scholarship informed by the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Contributions from all disciplines.

BYU Studies publishes scholarship that is informed by the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Submissions are invited from all scholars who seek truth “by study and also by faith” (D&C 88:118), discern the harmony between revelation and research, value both academic and spiritual inquiry, and recognize that knowledge without charity is nothing (1 Cor. 13:2). BYU Studies Quarterly features learned per

spectives relevant to Latter-day Saints. We also publish personal essays, short studies, poetry, art, and significant historical documents. Comments are moderated and will remain posted if they are on topic, use clean language, and show respect for others. Please note that comments that are profane, crude, insensitive, off topic, or contain personal attacks will be removed. BYU Studies also reserves the right to remove comments that contain commercial solicitations.

09/18/2024

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09/16/2024

Richard D. Draper includes an insight about 1 Corinthians 1:3 in our newest edition of New Testament commentary:

This verse seems to be part greeting and part apostolic prayer for the people. In this verse, Paul focuses more on the source and result of grace than grace itself. From this verse, we see that grace and peace come from God and the Savior, and it is through grace that individuals grow and reach their divine potential.

For more insights into New Testament scriptures, check out BYU Studies’ New Testament Commentary Series, available at Deseret Book and Amazon. More information can also be found on our website at:
https://byustudies.byu.edu/byu-new-testament-commentary

09/10/2024

Find the link to the article at the bottom of this caption, or read more below!

In the New Testament, Jesus Christ announced that He came into the world to “fulfill” the Torah and the Prophets. Today, there are debates among Christians surrounding the intended meaning of the word “fulfill” as used by Christ in this context. Some people interpret “fulfill” to mean bring something to its completion, while others believe “fulfill” means to do or observe.

In his article “Jesus and the Torah in Matthew: Beyond Replacement Theology,” Jordan Lavender argues that “Matthew regarded Torah observance as required by Jesus,” which indicates that Matthew interpreted “fulfill” to mean “observe. He also suggests that Matthew knew Jesus Christ was the official interpreter of God’s will and Torah. For this reason, Matthew encouraged the Jews to accept Jesus Christ’s explanation of the law. The distinction between the Torah followed by the Jews and Jesus Christ’s explanation of the Torah is highlighted by Matthew’s record of the Sermon on the Mount. In this sermon, Christ compares the Mosaic law found in the Torah with His own, higher law. He conducts this comparison with a thesis-antithesis formula, contrasting what His listeners have been taught with what He is teaching them by repeatedly using the structure of “You have heard it said...but I say unto you.”

We can compare the following scriptures:

“Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery" - Matthew 5:27

“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” - Matthew 5:22

While looking at these verses, Lavender comments that “Moses condemned adultery (Ex. 20:14; Deut. 5:18), and Jesus reveals that the underlying forbidden action includes adulterous thoughts (Matt. 5:28). This is how Jesus reveals the true interpretation of the law and not its undoing.” Therefore, it is important to note that in addition to the written Torah given to ancient Israel by God, the Pharisees followed an “oral Torah,” which included laws that were added by the Pharisees themselves. While Christ reinterpreted the written Torah for the Jews, He rejected the oral Torah completely.

Learn more about these interpretations and read the article on our website at:
https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/jesus-and-the-torah-in-matthew-beyond-replacement-theology

09/09/2024

Today is President Russell M. Nelson’s 100th birthday. In his 100 years of life, President Nelson has exemplified Christlike service. How have you served or been served by others in response to President Nelson’s birthday invitation?

09/06/2024

How does the Book of Mormon relate to people across different times and cultures around the world? To learn more, read “Translation and the World Order,” “On the Road with Richard Bushman” and “Response to Grant Wacker” on our website, or read more below. ⬇

In the Book of Mormon, Nephi foresees several cultures and their records “running together.” However, history is being kept all over the world. How are records from conflicting cultural contexts going to become similar enough to “run together?” The answer to this question might be found in prophetic translation. Some scholars suggests that in the Book of Mormon’s translation process, the Lord gave Joseph Smith not only the words of the Book of Mormon, but also the meaning of the book for a nineteenth-century audience.

If this is the case, the original text of the Book of Mormon may have been remodeled (through revelation) for the modern age. There is precedent for this forceful treatment of an ancient text in the relationship between the New and Old Testament, and in Moroni’s handling of the Jaredite records. This prophetic form of translation has historically been used to bridge the gap between cultures. Richard Bushman suggests that “Prophetic translation is an attitude as well as a gift. Searching out commonalities and interpreting doctrine to facilitate blending is possible for anyone.” Perhaps this is one way that God will bring in his kingdom. Bushman demonstrates the value of seeking commonalities with other religions by soliciting the opinion of Methodist scholar Grant Wacker. To keep researching, read “Translation and the World Order,” “On the Road with Richard Bushman” and “Response to Grant Wacker” on our website.

09/05/2024

"James B. Allen ranks highly among BYU Studies authors. Over many years he published articles, reviews and documents of great quality in great quantity. He was a founding father of scholarly studies of Joseph Smith's First Vision, a kind and generous mentor, and a true disciple of Jesus Christ. BYU Studies expresses heartfelt condolences to Professor Allen's family and loved ones. We honor him.

"We love him. We are grateful for all he has given us and taught us over the course of his brilliant career."

—Steven C. Harper, Editor in Chief of BYU Studies

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09/05/2024

The New Testament Commentary series published by BYU Studies is designed to support Latter-Day Saints in their New Testament study. Learn more on our website, and read more about Mark 1:14 below.

The Greek version of this verse (Mark 1:14) does not use the standard verb for “put.” Rather, to describe John the Baptist’s arrest, this verse uses a version of the verb that can be translated as “delivered up.” The use of this verb, which is also used later when Christ is arrested, highlights the parallels between John the Baptist and Jesus Christ. It suggests that perhaps part of John’s mission in preparing the way for the Lord included being “delivered up” first.

For more insights into New Testament scriptures, check out BYU Studies’ New Testament Commentary Series, available at Deseret Book and Amazon. From The Gospel According to Mark: BYU New Testament Commentary Series by Julie M. Smith.

https://byustudies.byu.edu/byu-new-testament-commentary

08/30/2024

The New Testament Commentary series published by BYU Studies is designed to support Latter-Day Saints in their New Testament study. Learn more on our website: https://byustudies.byu.edu/byu-new-testament-commentary.

This verse is frequently used by apostles and prophets “as a proof text for the premortal existence of humankind.”
President Brigham Young referenced this verse to teach that “There is no spirit among the human family that was begotten in hell; none that was begotten by angels, or by any inferior being. They were not produced by any being less than our Father in heaven.”
President Brigham Young continued... “He is the Father of our spirits; and if we could know, understand, and do His will, every soul would be prepared to return back into His presence.”
“And when they get [to heaven], they would see that they had formerly lived there for ages, that they had previously been acquainted with every nook and corner, with the palaces, walks, and gardens; and they would embrace their Father and He would embrace them and say, ‘My [child], I have you again,’ and the child would say, ‘O my Father, my Father, I am here again.’”
For more insights into New Testament scriptures, check out BYU Studies’ New Testament Commentary Series, available at Deseret Book and Amazon.
From Epistle to the Hebrews: BYU New Testament Commentary Series by Richard D. Draper and Michael D. Rhodes

08/26/2024

Joseph Smith’s sacred experiences in Liberty Jail laid the groundwork for future temple blessings and suggest the Lord’s interest in our spiritual growth. To learn more, read Liberty Jail: Seedbed for Eternal Temple Blessings by Steven L. Olsen at https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/liberty-jail-seedbed-for-eternal-temple-blessings.

The Lord mentored Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail, laying the groundwork for Joseph Smith to receive eternal truths that allowed for the establishment of sacred covenants and associated priesthood ordinances in the Nauvoo Temple.
An example of one eternal truth that Joseph Smith’s experiences in Liberty Jail prepared him to understand was the concept of exaltation.
Joseph Smith’s writings from Liberty Jail suggest the following qualities of this deified status:
• dwelling in God’s presence,
• receiving and using God’s power (priesthood),
• the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost, and
• “reigning eternally over a sovereign dominion.”
This view on eternal life was so expansive and distinct that there was no word for it in traditional Christian vocabulary. However, in Nauvoo-period revelation this concept was identified as exaltation, and temple ordinances essential to obtain it were established in the Nauvoo Temple.
Joseph Smith’s experiences in Liberty Jail thus “anticipated revelations that extend the promise of eternal life through sacred temple covenants and associated priesthood ordinances potentially to all humanity, including those who have died.”
This relationship between Joseph Smith’s writings from Liberty Jail and the later introduction of temple blessings in Nauvoo provides insight into the Lord’s pattern of instructing His servants, suggesting His concern with their progress toward their individual divine potential.
“Modern revelations indicate that God regularly meets Joseph Smith where he is but always expects the Prophet to progress to where God is.”
“Divine chastening certainly corrects, but more importantly, it furthers one’s spiritual progression—helping God’s children realize their divine potential.”
From Liberty Jail: Seedbed for Eternal Temple Blessings by Steven L. Olsen

08/23/2024

Merrijane Rice's poem "Black Sheep" was a finalist in our 2024 BYU Studies Poetry Contest, and deals with the complicated task of helping those you love most to feel welcome in your own family:

You don’t want to come to our party,
you say. No one here knows you
even though we all grew up together
in the same home. No one understands
how being with us feels

like ice melting under your collar—
like trying to hold back off-color
laughter in a funeral room—
like shifting on a pristine chair
in grease-stained coveralls.

You think we are whole without you,
a complete panel of magistrates
already in possession of a verdict.
But I am not

judging you—I am judging

the lay of the land. I am
plumbing the valleys and chasms
between us, plotting how to hurl
myself across and lay hold
before you run.

08/16/2024

John Alba Cutler’s poem, “ Lehi Tries to Explain" was a finalist in the BYU Studies 2024 Poetry Contest! Read this poem below, and find others featured in our most recent journal.

“there came a pillar of fire and dwelt upon a rock”

How the liquid branches of that burning tree
whipped upward as if trying to shake
themselves free of the nothing
they consumed, as if they remembered
or anticipated spirits shucking
off bodies, finding a lighter form.

How when night came the pillar wound
tighter, wrapping itself in itself
against the desert dark, the deep chill
of wilderness, a place outside city
walls, a place without the borders born
of lamps assembled against the gloom.

I watched the fiery dance for days, he said,
and knew the flame dwelt there as I
too would one day dwell there, rock-
bound and burning to rise night and day
in a land not yet ready to be called home,
not yet settled, not yet promised.

08/12/2024

TRIGGER WARNING: DISCUSSIONS OF VIOLENCE

In his article "Lessons We Can Learn from the Mountain Meadows Massacre" Richard E. Turley Jr. discusses the important things for modern people to learn and understand about tragic events of the past.

Background and Context
In 1857, tensions were high between Latter-day Saints, the federal government, and various non-Church-related wagon trains headed to California through Utah Territory. This tension, paired with miscommunication and overreaction, led to the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which has been called “the worst incident in Utah, Latter-day Saint, and northwest Arkansas history.”
What happened?
After a disagreement over supplies, sharp words were exchanged between Latter-day Saint merchants and members of a wagon company from Arkansas. The settlers, many of whom had been driven out of their homes before their move to the West, felt threatened by the travelers and urged Native Americans to raid the wagon train. Several wagon company members were tragically and horrifically killed and the Utah settlers’ involvement in the strike was exposed.
In a desperate effort to prevent others from knowing of their crime, local leaders hastily devised another ill-fated plan: offer the surviving emigrant members peace, only to murder the majority of them once they were unarmed.
Such a tragedy is not read lightly, yet there are many valuable lessons to be learned from the past to allow for a better future.
Lesson 1: Avoid Fanaticism. Even and especially in turbulent times, avoiding extreme behaviors and maintaining reason can help alleviate or prevent conflict.
Lesson 2: Don’t Overreact to Rumors. Acting on unverified rumors can lead to regrettable decisions and outcomes.
Lesson 3: Don’t Give In to Peer Pressure. Violence, and the “mob mentality” that commonly precedes it, can be avoided if individuals speak out against negative ideas early, before the heat of the moment and high emotions take hold.
Lesson 4: Find Safety in Councils. Decisions discussed by and agreed upon by groups often result in better outcomes than hasty individual actions.
Lesson 5: Don’t Try to Cover Up Wrongdoing. Efforts to hide previous immoral actions often compound and only worsen the situation and its severity.
Lesson 6: Deal with Hard Topics Honestly. Acknowledging and confronting difficult historical events truthfully, without bias and rationalization, is essential to learn and grow from errors of the past.
Lesson 7: Love Your Enemies. Despite anxious thoughts and worries, avoid demonizing others and the use of scapegoats. Promote peace instead of violence for all, regardless of differences in opinions or beliefs. It is crucial to recognize that the poor actions of some are not necessarily representative of the group as a whole.
Conclusion
"No one today is responsible for the tragedy that was the Mountain Meadows massacre, but we can learn from it. In today’s tense and worrisome world, let us all strive to avoid fanaticism, control rumors, resist peer pressure, seek counsel, be honest, and love one another."
To learn more, see “Lessons We Can Learn from the Mountain Meadows Massacre” by Richard E. Turley Jr.

08/09/2024

How has the Book of Mormon made a difference in your life? Come tomorrow and celebrate the restoring of the original Book of Mormon manuscript!!

August 10, 2024
1:00-3:00 p.m.

Presentations will be given by Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack. The event will be preceded by an informal open house from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Gordon B. Hickley Alumni Building

08/09/2024

Since the Book of Mormon’s translation by divine power in 1829, there have been seven major editions of the book published. Each new edition was intended to eliminate previous human errors and increase the book’s conformity with the original manuscript.

However, only a portion of the original manuscript remains. For 36 years, the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project has been working to recover the original English text for the entire Book of Mormon.

Join us to celebrate the completion of this project!
August 10, 2024
1:00–3:00 p.m.

Presentations will be given by Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack. The event will be preceded by an informal open house from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.

08/08/2024

Tight as a bulb, I wait in the dark,
wanting only the dark. But I’ve dreamed
the scent of sage, the smell of plowed soil,
a movement of wildflowers coming and going.

Another day moves in, feeling huge
as granite cliffs above and down into lakewater.
Living West all my years has seeded desires
not yet poached away by trauma.

Not wanting the cessation of grief, exactly,
I sit and watch light fill low unlit places.
Not wanting words, I feel them try to surface
when breeze slants blue timothy fields
into rippling; come sudden with the hawk
that dives like the blade of a knife.

Later through birch limbs, sunlight
coats my arms—rather like an anointing . . .
I want to reach, to touch paper-thin peeling bark
back to the tree-ness of their being.

With too easy conjectures of crickets,
dusk rises finally from low ground.
Over rock slopes, in fading spokes of sundown
sand lilies close tight

and open a thought—as though
I’ve at last remembered: some beauty flourishes
even when one’s own cannot.

—Dixie L. Partridge, one of our 2024 poetry contest finalists

08/04/2024

In 1841, eleven years after the Book of Mormon was first published, Joseph Smith placed the original manuscript for the Book of Mormon in the cornerstone of the Smith’s Nauvoo home. Decades later, Emma Smith’s second husband, Lewis Bidamon, discovered the manuscript, which had become severely water damaged. Only a portion of the original manuscript was legible. Over the past 35 years, the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project has been working to recover the original English text for the Book of Mormon.

Join us as we celebrate the completion of this project!

August 10, 2024
1:00-3:00 p.m.

Presentations will be given by Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack. The event will be preceded by an informal open house from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni Building

07/29/2024

Nephi’s vision in the Book of Mormon contains several images that are reminiscent of the apocalyptic book of Revelation in the New Testament. Studying the similarities between Nephi’s vision in the Book of Mormon and the visions in the book of Revelation provides a revised understanding of the apocalypse, suggesting that it gains its relevance from Jesus Christ’s life and death.
In the book of Revelation, a holy city descends out of heaven, representing the return of paradise to the earth at the end of time. In Nephi’s vision in the Book of Mormon, this holy city is replaced by the Lamb of God as the vision portrays Christ’s visit to Nephi’s posterity in ancient times.
“In Nephi’s vision, history does not yearn for or move toward a final transformation of the world into Edenic paradise; rather, paradise comes to the world whenever Christ comes to it, as if he were Eden in person.”
Both the book of Revelation and Nephi’s vision in the Book of Mormon contain the following images of destruction:
• Lightings
• Thundering
• Earthquakes
In the book of Revelation, these are used to describe the end of the world. In the Book of Mormon, however, these images portray events surrounding Christ’s Crucifixion.
“It is as if, in looking to the end of the world, one risks failing to look back to Christ’s advent that makes deliverance from earthly evils possible.”
As Nephi’s vision progresses to modern times and approaches the end of history, it becomes filled with metaphors and symbols parallel to those used in the book of Revelation to describe the end of time. This shift suggests the reality of the end of the world and does so with a sort of “plain apocalypticism.”
“The end of all things is real and deserves to be understood, according to the Book of Mormon, but it apparently should not be allowed to stand alone, as if it were sufficient to itself. It draws its force and meaning from the earthly sojourn of Jesus Christ understood in strict historical terms.”

To learn more, read It’s Not the End of the World; It’s Just the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Book of Mormon by Nicholas J. Frederick and Joseph M. Spencer on our website.
Art: Nephi Subdues His Rebellious Brothers by Arnold Friberg,
The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved, the Eagle by Dom Prosper Guéranger

07/25/2024

Read “Fall Semester, Large Midwestern University” by Kevin Klein as it is published in the newest issue of our journal, or read it below!

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Across acres of parking lots we walk
in thick silence, the first snow
this year, the first ever to stick

on the Southern California clothes
of the kid ahead of me. Hunched
monkishly under a skater hoodie,

hands in pockets, he bears no backpack,
just a folder clamped into an armpit.
Drifting past islands of lone, bony trees

in an asphalt sea, he’s long gone,
driving all night for waves and sunshine
by late morning, if he had a car.

He turns west for the freshman dorms.
Cloud-break rays burnish his face,
caution and a pilgrim’s humility

brace him for winter this far inland,
this far north, the shadow he knew
by feel back home faint as breath.

I should follow his shuffling footprints,
promise him that snowlight will balance
the distance of cold with dark’s closeness.

Look, I’d say, the sun always fades
like this, the final sliver of a citrus
cough drop in your soon-sore throat,

like campfire embers—driftwood if you want—
raked over those frozen mountains, dying fast
and too far away to warm your hands.

07/25/2024

Wishing you a Happy Pioneer Day from all of us here at !!

“Behind us is a glorious history. It is bespangled with heroism, tenacity to principle, and unflagging fidelity. It is the product of faith. Before us is a great future. It begins today. We cannot pause. We cannot slow down. We cannot slacken our pace or shorten our stride…

“Whether you have pioneer ancestry or came into the Church only yesterday, you are a part of this whole grand picture of which those men and women dreamed. Theirs was a tremendous undertaking. Ours is a great continuing responsibility. They laid the foundation. Ours is the duty to build on it.”

-Gordon B. Hinckley

07/23/2024

In the mob attack on Carthage jail, where Joseph and Hyrum Smith were killed, John Taylor was shot four times, and his watch was damaged. For many years, the accepted and circulated story was that this watch stopped a bullet and saved Taylor’s life. Last June, the Church History Department released forensic analysis that may suggest otherwise.

From Taylor’s own account of the attack:
“I fell onto the window sill and cried out I am shot. Not possessing any power to move, I felt myself falling outside of the window; but immediately I fell inside, from to me, at that time, an unknown cause.”

It is important to note that Taylor only comes to this conclusion—that his watch saved his life—only after the event is over. Later noticing his timepiece, he reasons that the damage must have been from a musket ball, and this gunshot was the force that propelled him back into the room.

Taylor notes falling back into the room, and later the damage to his watch. These two things may be related, but do not have to be. Here’s what several examinations over the years have found.

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Researchers: Ord and Pitt, Oct. 1998
Method: Physics and Metallurgy
Conclusions: the watch was not hit by a bullet but was crushed by the force of Taylor’s falling body pushing the watch against the windowsill.
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Researcher: Gaskill, Oct. 1998
Method: Ballistic Forensic Science
Conclusions: The hole in the face of the watch was not caused by a bullet. There is not enough evidence to prove whether the overall damage to the watch was caused by a bullet or bullet fragment or something else.
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Researchers: Haag, Bechaver, and Gelston; Nov. 2020 (preliminary), July 2021-May 2023 (final)
Method: Forensic Science
Conclusions: The watch is not consistent with the damage that would be expected with a direct hit from a firearm projectile. The damage on Taylor’s watch most resembled that of a test watch smashed with significant force between two pieces of hardwood.
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Researchers: Pilkington and Rimmasch, Nov. 2020 (preliminary) July 2021-2022 (final)
Method: Forensic Science
Conclusions: The damage to the watch is not consistent with the damage that would be expected with a direct hit from a firearm projectile. Synthesized data from FEA, SEM, and forensic studies indicate an intriguing similarity between the damage on Taylor’s watch and the test watches hit with ricochet bullet fragments at a 30° angle.
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Researcher: Fleming, 2021-2022
Method: Finite Element Analysis
Conclusions: Results showed that an angled impact at 200 mph (294 fps) with the 45-caliber musket ball most closely replicated the damage to the back face of the watch cover. The 200 mph (294 fps) speed deformed the rear face of the watch but did not result in excessive deformation or complete pe*******on of the watch.
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Researcher: Rivera, Jan. 2022
Method: Scanning Electron Microscopy
Conclusions: Globules inside the dents of Taylor and test watches were of the same composition as the metal alloys in the watches. It appeared that something heated those specific areas of the watches, melting metal fragments of the watches that later hardened.

Read the full article at https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/a-forensic-and-historical-look-at-john-taylors-watch-evidence-of-divine-mercy

07/19/2024

“As a senior medical resident in 1982 at Grady Memorial Hospital in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, I was assigned to the medical emergency room on the morning shift… During this rotation, I became friends with a Black gentleman who I will simply call our ‘newspaperman.’ I was told by others that he was homeless. He came to the ER early each morning with his newspapers… I would buy a paper, although I rarely had time to read it. Most everyone in the various ERs would do the same.” One day, “at about 8:00 a.m., one of the triage secretaries came running through the doors of the medical ER area calling for urgent help. There on the floor was our newspaperman, having a grand mal seizure. When he had collapsed, he had struck his head on the side of a chair, causing a laceration to his forehead that was bleeding profusely.” “An oral airway was placed and oxygen started. Intravenous fluids and an anticonvulsant were given. The seizure stopped. Then the laceration on his forehead was cleaned, anesthetized, and sutured. He remained in a post-seizure unconscious state." “His soiled and bloodied clothes were removed and placed in a plastic bag under his stretcher. He was bathed and placed in a clean hospital gown and covered in warm blankets. Searching his clothes for his ID, we also found an empty bottle of seizure medication that he had probably intended to fill that day.” “This story might have been routine except for one remarkable person—the triage secretary. She was a distinguished-looking middle-aged white woman dressed in hospital scrubs. She had someone cover her desk and came to be at his side. She discarded his newspapers, which were soiled with blood. Unbeknownst to us, she gathered his clothes and newspaper bag, took them to the hospital laundry, and told the workers there she needed them washed and dried quickly.” She sent envelopes to the other ERs explaining the situation and collecting money so he would have his daily wage. “Employees gave more than the cost of the paper that day. When the envelopes came back, she put the money in his clean newspaper bag, the strap of which she had sewn together by hand. She had also taken his empty prescription bottle of seizure medication to the pharmacy and paid for the refill herself. She picked up his clean clothes from the laundry and put them in the bag under his stretcher. He never knew that she had been there.” “On this winter day in the emergency room at Grady Hospital, most of us just did our job that day, but that triage nurse gave our newspaperman what she knew he needed most—mercy.”

From She That Showed Him Mercy by Ellis William Leroy Jr. Read the full essay on our website at https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/she-that-showed-him-mercy.

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More than a simple baby, the Babe of Bethlehem carries messianic titles, as seen in Isaiah 9:6. Scholars once sought the prophecy's fulfillment in Hezekiah, a righteous king, but details didn't align. Instead, Isaiah's vision finds its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ, hailed as the Wonderful Counselor – embodying awe-inspiring wisdom and the ability to guide and console in all things. Learn more from the article "Titles of the Messiah from Isaiah 9:6" by Eric D. Hunstman, found at the link in our bio!