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==Question: Why would Martin Harris use the phrases "eye of faith" or "spiritual eye" to describe his visionary experience?==
===Martin Harris was using scriptural language to describe his visionary experience===
Why did Martin Harris use the particular phraseology that he did in describing his experience? Perhaps the answer lies in another passage found in the book of {{s||Ether|12|19}}.
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And there were many whose faith was so exceedingly strong, even before Christ came, who could not be kept from within the veil, but truly saw with their eyes the things which they had beheld with an <font color="blue">eye of faith</font>, and they were glad.
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Here it is noted that those people who have "exceedingly strong" faith can see things "within the veil." But even though they see things in the spiritual realm "with their eyes" it is described as beholding things with "<font color="blue">an eye of faith</font>." 

Another possibility can be seen in the text of {{s||Moses|1|11}}. It reads: 

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But now '''mine own eyes''' have beheld God; but not my natural, but <font color="blue">my spiritual eyes</font>, for my natural eyes could not have beheld; for I should have withered and died in his presence; but '''his glory was upon me; and I beheld''' his face.
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This dovetails nicely with the description of David Whitmer who "explained that he saw the plates, and with his natural eyes, but he had to be '''prepared for it'''&mdash;that '''he and the other witnesses were overshadowed by the power of God'''." <ref>Nathan Tanner Jr. Journal, 13 April 1886.</ref>
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[[es:Pregunta: ¿Por qué Martin Harris usaría las frases "ojo de fe" u "ojo espiritual" para describir su experiencia visionaria?]]
[[pt:Pergunta: Por que Martin Harris usar as frases "olhos da fé" ou "olho espiritual" para descrever sua experiência visionária?]]

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