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ner Thompson was his (Baneemy’s) duly authorized agent 
on the earth. When interrogated as to what Baneemy 
was before he was revealed in his present character and 
name, Thompson replied that the answer was withheld 
for a wise purpose by Jehovah, and would only be re- 
vealed to those found worthy to receive the key words of 
the Holy Priesthood. 
As an illustration of Thompson’s classical ability in 
derivation of language, word making and general style 
of theological writing, I give his own definition of this 
word. 
“BANEEMY.” 
“Why is the successor of Joseph Smith called Banee- 
my? TF irst, because his mission is to give public notice 
of the rejection of the church, and to make public procla- 
mation interdicting its continuance, which is a curse 
upon the Gentiles; for ‘Ban’ signifies a proclamation or 
edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory. 
Second, to say unto Zion, ‘Behold your God reigneth,’ and 
to Jerusalem, ‘Behold your warfare is accomplished and 
your iniquity is pardoned, for you have received of the 
Lord’s hand double for all your sins’—for ‘ee’ is the ini- 
tials of ‘ecce’ (Latin) ‘Behold.’ Third, to cry in the name 
of the Lord, ‘Behold my curse, interdiction, and notice of 
future work’—for ‘my’ is an affix to ‘Banee,’ and is a per- 
sonal pronoun in the possessive case, and stands in this 
affix for Jehovah, our father in Heaven; whom Baneemy 
personates as the Father of Zion, which his name signi- 
fies in the Adamic or pure language. But as it stands in 
English ‘Baneemy,’ signifies, the voice of him that crieth 
in the wilderness, and giveth notice of God’s curse upon 
the Gentiles, in the rejection and interdiction of the 
church among them, and also of that which is to come, 
proclaiming the day of vengeance of our God, and the 
preparation necessary to be made for the restoration of 
Israel and their salvation in ‘that day.’ ” 
Ten years later in testifying in the litigation that 
followed, Thompson had evidently forgotten the forego- 
ing definition, for he then said that the word “Baneemy’’ 
is composed of two Hebrew words Bene and Hmmi, signi- 
fying my mother’s sons, or my brothers. 
