According to Harold Lundstrom, music editor of the Deseret News, this commentary is the result of “combining the heretofore unpublished testimonies, observations, research and sound doctrine observations” of George Reynolds, who was the father of the compiler, Philip C. Reynolds, and Janne M. Sjodahl, father-in-law of the compiler. Reynolds and Sjodahl are well-known in Mormon circles for their previous commentaries on the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants. In this work their independent notes are seemingly combined (no individual authority is established) to give a verse by verse commentary on the. Book of Moses and the first four chapters of the Book of Abraham.
