The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-12-28
Misfellauenns.
0URIosITIEs OF THE BIBLE.

0UN0SlTlES OF THE BlbLE.
The following curious calculations were
sscersioed By an English gentleman TO
siding q Amsterdam, A d. l772; also BY
another gentleman, who made . similar
calculation A. d. IT'S; and thsy are ssid
TO have taken each gentleman nearly shres
years in The Investigation: IN Is
The Old Testament contains 80 books
GO cbsrsn, q al verses 500, go words,
2,72s 100 letter.. The middle book OF the
Oil Testament ID Proverbs the middle
chapter Is the 18Th Of Job; the middle
verso il the al Of Chronicles, 10Th chapter.
between the 18th anil the 18th verses.
The longest hook Of the Old Testament Is
Isaiah having &C chapters; shortest book.
O'~disb. having . chapter; longest chap
ter Palms ii9. having i76 verses shones,
chapter Psalms liz. having Q verses; long.
est verse. Esther. 9th chapter and 9sh verse,
having 90 words and az letters; shortest
verse la Chronicles and 25,h verse, having
3 words and twelve letters.
The word "snd" occurs In the Old
Testament IS 5i3 times the word Jehovah
or Lord occurs 6 ss5 times; the word Rev.
occurs but once in the Bible, namely,
Psalms lilih and oh vcrsea The fn,
record Of burial in coffin was Joseph,
in Genesis, 5,h chapter and 26,h verse. The
18th chapter OF ID book Of Kings and 37,h
Of Isaiah arc alike. Tho 2ist verse Of The
7th chapter Of Ezra contains tho Alphabet,
land J being a. one and the same The
book Of Esther has 10 chapters. and Meth.
er Lord nor God 10 to be found therein.
The 9Th, i2sh, 2iss, and 3iss verses Of the
10Th Palm arc alike.-There arc no words
or names in tho Bible Of moro than six
syllables The two finest chapters in the
Bible to read arc the ID chapter Of Job and
the 26,h Of Acts.
The Apocrypha mot inspired) contains
ls3 chapters G06l verses and l52,is5
words.
Tho New Tesssmen, contains "a books,
$50 el,spsers, $3.50 venss. isi .253 words,
and SO, $50 letters Tho middle book
ofihe New Testament Is the ID Epis,le to
Thexalonians, and the middle chapter 10
between tho l;hh and liih OF Romans.
The middle verse 10 Acts 18th chapter and
18th verse. The longest book OF tho New
Teasmen, 10 Mathew. having % chapters;
shores, book. I'd Epis,le Of John, having !
chapter; longest chapter, Luke tho LIST,
having go verses; shortest chapter, Let
Epistle Of John, ist chapter, having 10
verses; longest verse is Revelations 10Th
chapter and l,h verse, having 276 letters
and 65 words; shortest verse Is John llth
chapter and 35th verse, having o letters
and two words The word and" occurs
in the New Testament l0,6si times. No
where, except in tho ist chapter Of Cd Tim
othy, is the name Of Grandmother men.
toned in the Bible. The entire Bible con
,ains 66 books, 1850 chapters. 3i,I73 YER
ses. 77a60? words and 2, '66, 4s0 letters.
The middle chapter or division Of the
Bible is the ii7ih Psalm, the middle verse
in the Bible is Psalm lls,h, verse 10; the
middle line is 2d Chronicles, 9Th chapter,
and l6,h verse. The first division Of the
Divine oracles into chapters and verses is
attributed to Stephen Lansdon, Archbishop
of Canterbury, who in the reign Of King
John, in the latter part OF the twelfth GEN.
fury, divided the Old Tes,anest into chap
ter, as they stand in our present translation.
In 1901, A,hias, Jew Of Amsterdam, di.
yi,ied the sections Of Hugo into verses, as
we now have them. Robert Stephen, a
French printer. had previously (ISSI) d.
vided the New Testament into verses as
they now arc. A Bible in tho University
Of Go,linsen is written on 5,475 palm leaves.