FootnoteMembers of the LDS Church continue today to use pronouns from Early Modern English in their prayers in reference to Diety (“thee, “thy”, “thine”, “thou art”, etc.) Erin Shalev (2010): “The language of the King James Bible was as strange and foreign to late...
Footnote Henry Lake (1833): “the so frequent use of the words ‘And it came to pass,’ ‘Now it came to pass,’ rendered it ridiculous.” Martha Spalding (1833): “The old, obsolete style, and the phrases of ‘and it came to pass,’ &c. are the same.” John Spalding...
FootnoteEber Howe in Mormonism Unvailed (1834): Aaron Wright (1833): “the names more especially are the same without any alteration” John Miller (1833): “The names of Nephi, Lehi, Moroni, and in fact all the principal names, are bro’t fresh to my recollection, by the...
