Authentic Joseph Smith (No. 6) Part of the Joseph Smith, Jr. Series All blue quotes by Joseph Smith (unless otherwise noted). From Wilford Woodruff’s diary (March 1844) The Britannica Encyclopedia defines Elias and Elijah as the same person, and this is the general, secular understanding among religious scholars today: “Elijah, also spelled Elias or Elia, Hebrew Eliyyahu, (flourished 9th century BCE),…
