Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1853-08-27

STATISTICS OF THE BIBLE.

The Rev. e. E. Elliott IS delivering
| course of lectures on Sabbath even.
ings, at Baldwinsville, and in the pre-.
liminary lecture The following interest
ing facts were mentioned, and ap.
peared subsequently, in the Onoadaga
Gazcuc. We would suggest 10 our
readers 10 cut out This paper and paste
it in their Bibles:
The Old Testament contains 80 books,
929 chapters, 1924 verses, 592,439
words, 2,72S,l00 letters.
The New Testament contains 81
books, 26O chapters, 1889 verses, 1Sl,-
253 words, S3S, $3.50 letters.
The entire Bible contains 66 books,
I,1s9 chapters, 31,l73 verses, 1862
words, 1856, ,4S0 letters.
The name of Jehovah or Lord, oc-
ours 6,S55 times in the Old Testament,
The word AND occurs in the Bible
46, ,227 times, viz, in the Old Tesla
ment So, ,543 times, in the New Tesla
ment 10, ,6s4 times.
The middle book Of The Old Tesla
ment is Proverbs.
The middle chapter is the 29lhoi Job.
The middle verse is the End Chroni-
cles, Goth chapter, between the l7th
aud 18th verses.
The middle book Of the New Tesla
men. is the End Epistle to the sThessa-
lonians. '
The middle chapter is between the
18Th and 18th Of Romans.
The middle verse is Acts xvii. II.
The middle chapter or division, and
the least in the Bible,is thu l17th Psalm
The middle verse in The Bible is Ps.
11S: verse 8. 49,
The middle line 10 the Bible is End
Chronicles 4:16.
The least verse in the Old Testament
is 1st Chronicles j. l.. eat
The least verse in the Bible is John
lx.3 .a la
The Apocrypha, mot inspired, but
sometimes bound betweenthe Old Tes-
lament and the New, contains 1s5
chapters, 6,Osl verses, 15a, 1876 words
.zsInsthe s2lstsyerss .of, the 4lh Of Ezra,
and ] being considered as one. j
The 10Th chapter Of 2nd Kings, and
37th Of Isaiah are the same.
These facts were ascertained by On
English gentleman residing at Amster-
dam; A. D. 1772. Also by another
gentleman who made a similar calcula-
lion, A. D. IT'S, and they are said to
have taken each gentleman nearly three
years in the investigation.
The first division Of the Divine Ora
cles into chapters and verses is, attribu.
led to Stephen Langton, Archbishop Of
Canterbury, in the reign Of King john
in the latter part Of the 18th century,
or beginning of the 18th. Cardinal
Hugo, in the middle of the 18Th centl.
nv. divided the Old Testament into
chapters as they stand in our t1nsla-
tion. In 1861, Athias, a Jew Of Am
sterdam, divided the sections Of Hugo
into verses, as we now have them
Robert Stephens, a French printer, had
previously t155l) divided The New Tes-
lament into verses as they now are.
The Scriptures have been translated
into 14s languages and dialects, Of
which 121 had, prior to the formation
Of the aBri,ish and Foreign Bible So
csetp," never appeared. And % q
these languages existed without an al.
phabet, in an oral form. Upwards Of
forty-three millions of these copies Of
Gods Word are circulated among not
less than six hundred million people
"What hath God wrought"
There, is a Bible in the library ofthe
University Of Gottingen, written on s.
476 palm leayes.-Northern Christian
Aduocate. tse ,as4l %. So