Examples are: “Asahel would not turn aside from following of him” (2 Samuel 2:21); and “they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep” (John 11:13). “They left beating of Paul” (Acts 21:32) means “they stopped beating Paul.” The redundant “of” is Shakespearian usage; for example, in As You Like It (IV, 3, 10) Silvius, delivering Phoebe’s letter, says: “I know not the contents; but, as I guess By the stern brow and waspish action Which she did use as she was writing of it, It bears an angry tenour.”