Transcript Adding Color to Your Scriptures Footnotes (Powerpoint Presentation)

Adding Color
to our Scriptures
What do I mark?
Three ideas
• Footnotes
• Doctrinal insights/personal
interests
• Quotes from prophets
Question
Where would you find
the explanation
of the abbreviations
in your footnotes?
Footnotes
• GR = translation from the Greek
(New Testament)
• HEB = translation from the
Hebrew (Old Testament)
• IE = [that is] an explanation of
idioms and difficult constructions
• JST = Joseph Smith Translation
• Or = alternate words to clarify
the meaning of archaic
expressions
• Editorial notes = other helps
Examples
GR
= Mark 9:45a (p. 1258)
HEB
= Deut. 16:21a (p. 280)
IE
= Isaiah 58:4b (p. 931)
JST
= Exodus 7:1b & 1c (p. 88)
Or
= Luke 24:49b (p. 1324)
Editorial notes
= 2 Nephi 12:2a (p. 81)
Other examples
Genesis 3:16 (p. 5-6)
Genesis 6:16a (p. 10)
Matthew 2:6d (p. 1188)
Revelations 12:5 (p. 1577)
Doctrinal Insights
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Nature of God?
God’s mercy?
Blessings of obedience?
Products of sin?
Miracles?
Precepts?
Comfort scriptures?
Notes from the Prophets
This clarifies Alma 36:12
BKP April 2001
racked = tortured
anciently a rack was a framework on
which the victim was laid with each
ankle and wrist tied to a spindle which
could then be turned to cause
unbearable pain.
harrow = a frame with spikes through it;
when pulled across the ground, it
rips and tears in into the soil.
torment = to twist;
torture so painful that even the
innocent would confess.
Joseph Smith
A man is his own tormentor and
his own condemner. . . The
torment of disappointment in
the mind of a man [or woman]
is as exquisite as a lake burning
with fire and brimstone.
A few study ideas
1. Music. Read a hymn each day
and then look up the scriptures
printed at the bottom of the hymn.
Mark "Hymn #____" next to the
verse.
2. Bible Dictionary. Read one term
a day and mark your scriptures
accordingly. After doing this you
will be well-versed in gospel terms.
3. Footnote Frenzy. Look up
EVERY
SINGLE footnote as you read. I did this
for six months once and the result was a
clear realization that each book of
scripture teaches the same truths and
they come together as one BIG truth!
4.Topical. What are your current
struggles? Look them up in the
Topical Guide and help yourself!
There's more in there than you
think, for example: "Family,
Managing Finances in" or “Comfort”
or "Despair" or "Hope."
5.Articles of Faith. Start with the
first "believe" in the first Article of
Faith and study every term until
you get to "things" in the Thirteenth
Article of Faith. You'll be an expert
on the Articles of Faith.
6.Patriarchal Blessing. Go through
your Patriarchal Blessing and look
up the terms used and promises
given you. Did the Patriarch ever
quote scripture? Find the verse and
mark "My P. Blessing" in the
margin.
Words from the Prophets
Spencer W. Kimball
I am convinced that each of us, at
some time in our lives, must
discover the scriptures for
ourselves--and not just discover
them once, but rediscover them
again and again.
(“How Rare a Possession--The Scriptures!,”
Tambuli, Dec 1985, 3)