The gospel in words – 'Magnify'

Published: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:48 p.m. MDT
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"Attend to thy calling and thou shalt have wherewith to magnify thine office." (Doctrine and Covenants 24:9)

If you are like me, when you hear the word "magnify," you think of a magnifying glass or lens. Indeed, a definition of magnify is "to increase the apparent size of an object by means of a lens, microscope, etc., or to cause to appear larger" (Oxford English Dictionary). Though there is some application of that definition to the scriptural use of magnify, the concept in the scriptures is much deeper and more real than to simply increase the apparent size or make something appear larger.

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