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Archaic “of whom it hath been spoken”

An uncommon, nonbiblical phrase.

This referential phraseology occurs once in the Book of Mormon.

aa0521
yea, his garments must be purified until it is cleansed from all stain
through the blood of him of whom it hath been spoken by our fathers
which should come to redeem his people from their sins.

Currently there are five other instances known: 1550–1710.

1563, EEBO A09568, 13
The begynnynge of Rome was at that tyme as the Kynge Salmanasar (of whome it hath been spoken) dyd raygne ouer the Assyrians.

1580, EEBO A19309, [989]
for they cannot hide themselues so wel, but they wil be surprised: but hee speaketh of them of whome it hath bene spoken off heretofore.

1598, EEBO A21245, 80²
Euen as the Periaeces in Candie did, of whom it hath already beene spoken.

1653, EEBO A88989, 100⁵
Calvin contrariwise by the Assyrian understands the Caldeans or Babylonians, of whom it hath been hitherto spoken.

1710, Google Books, 156
And that will belong to him far more than to some of whom it hath been spoken;

Here is an early modern example of the pronoun it referring back to garments, as in aa0521:

1619, EEBO A01545, 71
when the Souldiers that executed him, parted his garments among them, and to saue it from quartering, cast Lots apart vpon one of them,

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