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P. Marion Simms, The Bible in America (New York: Wilson-Ericson, 1936), p. 149. In the 60 years since Simms made this claim, there seems to have been no challenger to this accomplishment.

For a discussion of the relationship between the Millerites and Seventh-Day Adventists, see The Disappointed: Millerism and Millenarianism in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Ronald L. Numbers and Jonathan M. Butler (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987).

Cited by Susan Shaw from a translation of Smith’s diary (A Religious History of Julia Evelina Smith’s 1876 Translation of the Holy Bible: Doing More Than Any Man Has Ever Done [San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992], p. 117). A significantly different version appears in Kathleen Housley, The Letter Kills But the Spirit Gives Life: The Smiths—Abolitionists, Suffragists, Bible Translators (Glastonbury, CT: The Historical Society of Glastonbury, 1993), p. 78.

Brown, The Gospel According to John, p. 476.

Brown, The Gospel According to John, p. 470.

Precisely these words are used of the prayers of Peter (Acts 9:40), Paul (Acts 20:36) and the community at Tyre (Acts 21:5). Kneeling while praying was not unknown among the Jews; see 1 Kings 8:54 (which, however, contradicts 1 Kings 8:22!) and Daniel 6:10.

“But it is also well attested for a state of mind associated with fear or anguish because of some impending, uncertain experience or phenomenon” (Fitzmyer, The Gospel According to Luke, p. 1444).

Brown cites medical evidence of “instances of hemaidrosis, involving intense dilation of subcutaneous capillaries that burst into the sweat glands. The blood then clots and is carried to the surface of the skin by the sweat” (Death of the Messiah, pp. 185).

Brown, Death of the Messiah, pp. 180–186.