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==David Whitmer: "We were in the spirit when we had the view...but we were in the body also"== | ==David Whitmer (1887): "We were in the spirit when we had the view...but we were in the body also"== | ||
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Of course we were in the spirit when we had the view, for no man can behold the face of an angel, except in a spiritual view, but we were in the body also, and everything was as natural to us, as it is at any time.<ref>''Letter of David Whitmer to Anthony Metcalf, March 1887''. Quoted in Richard Lloyd Anderson, ''Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1981), p. 86.</ref> | Of course we were in the spirit when we had the view, for no man can behold the face of an angel, except in a spiritual view, but we were in the body also, and everything was as natural to us, as it is at any time.<ref>''Letter of David Whitmer to Anthony Metcalf, March 1887''. Quoted in Richard Lloyd Anderson, ''Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1981), p. 86.</ref> | ||
Of course we were in the spirit when we had the view, for no man can behold the face of an angel, except in a spiritual view, but we were in the body also, and everything was as natural to us, as it is at any time.[1]

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