“The adverb really is used only twice in all of scripture, and then only for exceptional emphasis. The great poet-prophet Jacob underscored the manner in which the Spirit teaches us the truth ‘of things as they really are, and of things as they really will be.’ Jacob’s declaration about truth is, of course, consistent with the definition of truth given by the Lord to a later prophet, Joseph Smith: ‘And truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come.’ (D&C 93:24.) Thus, while in A.D. 33, Pilate asked Jesus, ‘What is truth?’ and the Savior did not reply, in A.D. 1833 he did reply. (John 18:38.)” (Maxwell, Things As They Really Are, 1).