Matthew Brown notes that it appears from scriptural and historical texts that Joseph Smith’s premortal identity is known: “I will prepare unto my servant Gazelem, a stone, which shall shine forth in darkness unto light,” (Alma 37:23). “Gazelam” was the codename for Joseph Smith in D&C 78:9; 82:11; 104:26, 43 up until late twentieth-century editions of the Doctrine and Covenants. Orson Pratt indicated that Gazelam referred to “a person to whom the Lord had given the Urim and Thummim” (JD 16:156). At the Prophet’s funeral, W. W. Phelps stated that Joseph Smith was Gazelam in the premortal spirit world and also spoke of the Prophet’s high premortal status. “Surely, as one of the holy ones commissioned by his Father among the royal seventy, when the High Council of Heaven set them apart to come down and ’multiply and replenish this earth,‘ he was the ’last,‘ and who knows but the ’greatest,’ for he declared we knew not who he was! So, I may say, as the last is to be first, and the first last in eternal rotation, that Joseph Smith, who was Gazelam in the spirit world, was, and is, and will be in the endless progress of eternity--The Prince of Light. Tis so, and who can dispute it?” (Brigham Young University Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, Winter 1983, 12) [Matthew B. Brown, All Things Restored: Confirming the Authenticity of LDS Beliefs, p. 62]