FootnoteEber Howe in Mormonism Unvailed (1834): 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,”...
FootnoteErin Shalev (2010): “Written in the Style of Antiquity”: Pseudo-Biblicism and the Early American Republic, 1770-1830. Church History 79:4 (December 2010), 800–826. doi:10.1017/S0009640710001034. Source. (Thanks to Dale Broadhurst.) “The year 1744 witnessed the...
