“Instead of the Lord pointing out what should be the duties of these Apostles, while here in this temporal existence, he pointed out the more important duties that would devolve upon them in the next state. The simple duties of this life were nothing compared to those of the world to come. … The Twelve Nephite Apostles had a knowledge of some other, future duties to be performed in the world to come. ‘Know ye, that you shall be judges of this people. What manner of men ought ye to be. Verily, I say unto you, even as I am’” (Orson Pratt, in Journal of Discourses, 19:116).