13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's ^awisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

  27  I continued to pursue my common vocations in life until the twenty—first of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, all the time suffering severe persecution at the hands of all classes of men, both religious and irreligious, because I continued ^ato affirm that I had seen a vision.