“It is impossible for the poor, weak … sinful inhabitants of the earth to receive a revelation from the Almighty in all its perfections. He has to speak to us in a manner to meet the extent of our capacities … .
“If an angel should come into this congregation … and use the language he uses in heaven, what would we be benefited? Not any, because we could not understand a word he said. When angels come to visit mortals; they have to condescend to and assume, more or less, the condition of mortals, they have to descend to our capacities in order to communicate with us” (Brigham Young, in Journal of Discourses, 2:314).