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Episode 02 – Slide 21

Footnote

Members 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 eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century Anglophones as it is to twenty first-century English-speakers. The staccato rhythms confined in short and numbered verses, the repetitive use of phrases such as “and it came to pass,” and the use of verbs with suffixes such as “-eth,” had been long gone from the spoken language by the second half of the eighteenth century… American authors and commentators used this ontologically privileged language as a means to establish their claims for truth, as well as their authority and legitimacy in public discourse.” “Written in the Style of Antiquity”: Pseudo-Biblicism and the Early American Republic, 1770-1830.
Dec 1, 2010.

http://www.readperiodicals.com/201012/222

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