Oliver Cowdery here seems to have accidentally deleted the modal shall when copying from 𝓞 into 𝓟. Elsewhere, in subordinate clauses headed by after, when, or until
(that is, when the subordinate clause refers to the future) there are nine additional passages with the future perfect “shall have”:
- 1 Nephi 15:13
- in the latter days when our seed shall have dwindled in unbelief …
- 1 Nephi 9:15
- and it shall come to pass that when all men shall have passed from this first death unto life …
- 2 Nephi 14:4 (quoting Isaiah 4:4 of the King James Bible)
- when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem …
- 2 Nephi 26:1
- and after that Christ shall have risen from the dead he shall shew himself unto you
- 2 Nephi 26:9
- and they shall have peace with him until three generations shall have passed away and many of the fourth generation shall have passed away in righteousness
- 2 Nephi 26:10
- and when these things [NULL >+ shall 1|shall APS| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOQRT] have passed away a speedy destruction cometh unto my people
- 2 Nephi 26:15
- after that my seed and the seed of my brethren [NULL > shall 1|shall ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] have dwindled in unbelief and shall have
been smitten by the Gentiles yea after that the Lord God shall have camped against them round about and shall have laid siege against them
with a mount and raised forts against them and after that they shall have been brought down low in the dust …
- 2 Nephi 20:28
- nevertheless when they shall have received the fullness of my gospel …
- 3 Nephi 26:9
- and when they shall have received this which is expedient that they should have first to try their faith …
Note in particular the examples in 2 Nephi 26:10, 15 where Oliver Cowdery initially dropped the modal shall when he copied the text from 𝓞 into 𝓟. In these two cases, he caught his error
and supralinearly inserted the shall. Thus we see a tendency on Oliver’s part to accidentally delete the shall in future perfect constructions. Consequently, his omission of the
shall in 1 Nephi 11:7 should also be considered accidental and unmotivated.
