penetralia of domestic sociality

I challenge everyone to use this phrase in conversation at least once by the end of the week:

“Elder Follett was one of those who bore the burden, in common with others of his brethren, in the days when men’s faith was put to the test. He was a native of Vermont and moved many years since into the State of Ohio, county of Cuyahoga. There, for the first time he heard the gospel preached, and, like the Bareans of old, searched the scriptures to see if these things were so, regarding neither the scoffs nor threats of an opposing and gainsaying world, he united with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in the spring of 831, and has been a sharer in the afflictions through which the saints have passed from that time until the time of his death. He shared in the violence of the Missour[i] persecutions; was cast into prison, and endured many months imprisonment; and after long delay, obtained a trial on the charges preferred against him, and honorably discharged, being acquitted of all the crimes that a band of wicked persecutors could charge him with.
All the persecutions he endured only tended to strengthen his faith and confirm his hope; and he died as he had lived, rejoicing in the hope of future felicity.—Having united with the church in the forty-first year of his age, he filled up the prime of his life in the service of his God, and went to rest in his fifty sixth year; being fifty five years seven months and fourteen days old when he slept the sleep of death.
So the righteous pass and so they sleep, until the mandate of Him, for whom they suffer, and in whom they trust, shall call them forth to glory, honor, immortality and eternal life.”

Stapley, there are clues in the actual KFD that it was meant to serve as a sort of eulogy, at least in the sense of an attempt to explain this kind of tragic death. Death from persecution could be understood as martyrdom and integrated into a Providential view, dying from a tub of rocks in the base of a well is much harder to explain.

The first obituary devotes much of the time to explaining his suffering in the Missouri persecutions, as if trying to push toward a martyrological explanation of his death.

The funeral was almost a month earlier. He just used the the circumstances of the death as an opportunity to speak on the eternities.

I was interested in the expression diurnal illuminati, which taken as a unit renders zero google hits. In context it appears to be speaking of the sun and the moon, the great sources of daily light. The word diurnal derives from Latin diurnus, “daily,” and is the source for French jour and English journal.

This also called to my mind the note I wrote on “daily” bread in the Lord’s Prayer at Matthew 6:11:

The word “daily” is a rendering of an obscure GR word, epiousios. This word is rare in secular GR, and its meaning here is uncertain. Some of the possibilities include: (1) “necessary for existence” (deriving from epi + ousia); (2) as a substantivizing of epi tÄ“n ousan [hÄ“meran], meaning “for the current day, today”; (3) “for the following day” (in this sense perhaps equivalent to the LAT diaria, the daily ration of food given out for the following day (and the source of ENG diary); thus, one could render something like “give us today our daily portion”); and (4) “for the future,” understood in various senses, including an eschatological one, referring to bread for the coming kingdom and its feast.