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Date Posted: 17:41:41 09/23/11 Fri
Author: George
Subject: Senior, Junior, II, and III

When a man names his son after himself, the son becomes

Joseph Smith, Jr.

and the father becomes

Joseph Smith, Sr.

If the son has a son of his own, and names that son Joseph Smith, the grandson is named Joseph Smith, III.

If a brother of the man originally named Joseph Smith (husband of Lucy Mack) named his son Joseph Smith, the nephew of the original Joseph Smith would have been called Joseph Smith, II.

The title "II" never appears in the line of lineal descent.

For a group of people ashamed of the Book of Mormon ms. use of the archaic constructions (no longer correct) "a'preaching," and "for to go" it is amazing that we ourselves often fail to follow the correct modern practice of naming Sr., Jr., etc.

Don't feel bad, though, folks. Joseph Smith, III himself once wrote an article (Reprinted by Ricard Price) defending the virgin birth of Christ in which he confounded the terms "virgin birth" and "immaculate conception." The latter term refers to the Roman Catholic doctrine that Jesus' mother Mary was paradoxically conceived without sin of normal, sinful, human parents, whereas Jesus needed to have God be his father in order to come out free of sin.

George

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