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33100
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English
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Remembering Christ's Blood Which Was Shed
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Religious Educator
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2022
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23
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Provo, UT
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BYU Religious Studies Center
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109-125
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"In this paper we will examine how the words 'shed and 'blood' have historically been used when they collocate in the scriptures and in the words of Joseph Smith and his contemporaries (as documented in the Joseph Smith Papers). In these corpora, the phrase 'shedding of blood' and its variants has been consistently used to refer to violence or death and never to describe Christ in Gethsemane. Thus, strictly speaking in this historical sense, scripture passsages about the need to remember Christ's shedding of blood, (such as the sacrament prayers) refer to remembering his death. We first describe our methodology and findings within the standard works and then do the same for the text found in the Joseph Smith Papers online corpus. Finally, we briefly explore possible reasons why many Latter-day Saints today connect the phrase 'shedding of blood' with Gethsemane when the scriptures and Joseph Smith did not do so." [Authors]