Apocryphal Scripture of the Week – The Commonplace Notebook

Apocryphal Scripture of the Week #7: Do Not Treat Us as Our Wickedness Deserves

Apocryphal Scripture of the Week: (see Doctrine and Covenants 91)

Here’s a cool story. Simon Maccabeus, the last of the Maccabee family who fought to protect the Jews’ lands and religious rights, was different from his brothers and his father. While his predecessors had no problem mowing down their enemies whether in occupied Jewish cities or ones they just wanted to conquer, Simon took a less aggressive approach.

Apocryphal Scripture of the Week #1: Wisdom—More Mobile Than Any Motion

Apocryphal Scripture of the Week: (see Doctrine and Covenants 91)

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“All that was secret or manifest I learned,

For wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me. . . .

For wisdom is more mobile than any motion,

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