Lds Sealing Quotes

D. Michael Quinn has written, “The original records of sealings in the nineteenth century used variations of only two phrases to define each marriage: ‘for time and eternity,’ and ‘for time only,’ both of which gave the sanction of the church for sexual intercourse between the living persons thus sealed. If the phrase ‘eternity only’ ever appeared in an original record of LDS sealing in the nineteenth century, I have not discovered it while examining thousands of such manuscript entries.”22 Quinn is including not only Nauvoo polygamy, but the entire historical sweep of Mormon marriage in the nineteenth century in this statement.