“I Show Myself Unto You”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet

First, perhaps the Lord was speaking of the total and complete manner in which he revealed himself to the brother of Jared. President Joseph Fielding Smith explained:

“I have always considered Ether 3:15 to mean that the Savior stood before the brother of Jared plainly, distinctly, and showed him his whole body and explained to him that he was a spirit. In his appearance to Adam and Enoch, he had not made himself manifest in such a familiar way. His appearance to earlier prophets had not been with that same fulness… . For the brother of Jared he removed the veil completely.” (Doctrines of Salvation 1:37; see also Bruce R. McConkie, Promised Messiah, pp. 47, 599-600.)

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 4

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