“An Unction from the Holy One”
1 John 2:20, 27
20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. . . .
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote:
“Literally, an unction is the act of anointing, as with oil for medicinal purposes; figuratively, it is an anointing from on high, meaning that those so endowed receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Thus John said of the Saints, ‘Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things’ (1 John 2:20), that is, they had received the Holy Ghost so that the spirit of revelation and knowledge rested with them.”
(Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed. [1966], 812–13.)
