The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-06-13

HE stOiy Scriptures.

languages and dialects C. which 12l had prior
TO the formation OF the British Foreign Bible So
ciety never appeared. And twenty-five of thoss
languages existed without an alphabet in AZ
oral FORM Upwards OF 4, 100000 of these copie;
. OF Gods word are circulated among not less than
6OO,OUO,ocO of people.
The first division of the Divine orasles into
chapters and verses is attributed to Stephen Lang
ton, archbishop of Canterbury, in the reign Of
Ming John, III the latter part of the twelfth cen.
fury, or beginning of the thirteenth. Cardinal
hugo, IN the middle of the thirteenth century
divided the Old Testament into chapters as they
stand in our translation. In 1861, Athias. n Jew
French printer had previously 15Cr divided
the New Testament into verses AS they now
are
The Old Testament contains 80 books, go
chapters, 30 2li verses, 592, 439 words 1.S. 100
letters
The New Testament contains 81 books, $50
chapters, 1850 verses, 1872 53 words, $50, $50
| letters
The entire Bible contains &C books, 1889 chap
ters 81, 175 verses, 774,G92 words, 1865 4S9 let
| ters
| The name of jehovah, or Lord, occurs 1856
times in the Old Testament.
The word ''and" occurs in the Old Testament
35,543 times.
The middle book of the Old Testament is
| Proverbs
| The middle chapter is the Goth of Job.
The middle verse is % Chronicles, Goth chap
| ter, 18th verse.
The middle book of the New Testament is I'd
Thessalonians.
The middle chapters are Romans 10 and IA.
| The middle verse il Acts 1l:7
The middle chapter, and the least in the Bible,
is Psalms, III.
The middle verse in the Bible is Psalms
1858.
| The middle line in the Bible is I'd Chronicles
| 1:l6.
| The least verse in tho Old Testament is 1st
Chronicles ii
| The least verse in the Bible is John 1876.
The 10Th chapter OF I'd Kings and Isaiah 81
| are the same
In the eth verse OF 7th of Ezra are all the
letters OF the alphabet, l and j considered as
one.
The Apocrypha mot inspired, but sometimes
bound between the Old Testament and the New,)
contains IA books 1873 chapters 1901 verses,
1913, 1856 words.
The preceding facts were ascertained by gem
teman in 11lS, also by an Englishman residing
at Amsterdam in 1112, and is said to have taken
each gentleman nearly three years in the inves-
tigaton.
There is Bible in the library of the Univer.
sity OF Gottingen written on ., 476 palm leaves.
days journey was SO 1-5 miles.
A Sabbath days journey was about an English
mile
Elekiel's reed was eleven feet nearly.
cubit is twenty-five inches nearly.
hands breadth is equal to three and FIVE
eight inches.
fingers breadth IS equal to one inch
A shehel Of silver was about fifty cents.
shekel Of gold was $500
A talent Of silver was S5l632
A talent of gold was $l3,S09.
A piece of silver OF Il penny was thirteen
cents
A farthing was three cents.
A gorah was one cent.
a mite one and half cent.
homer contained seventy gallons and five
pints.
A nepha or bath contains seven gallons and
five pints.
| bin was one gallon and two pints.
| frkin was seven pints.
An omer was six pints.
A cab was three pints.
| dog was one half pint
The divisions Of the Old Testament are four
!. The Pentateuch, or the four books of
VI oses
2. The historical books, comprising Joshua TO
Esther, inclusive.
). Poetical or doctrinal books, from Job to
Songs Of solomon, inclusive.
4. Prophetical books from Isaiah to Malachi
The New Testament is usually divided into
three parts:
l. Historical, containing the four gospels and
acts.
:. Doctrinal, comprising all the epistles, from
Romans to Jude
| 3 Prophetical, being tie book OF Revelations
of St John.
| The commemorative ordinances Of the Jews
! were:
| Circumcision, the seal of the covenant with
Abraham.
| The Passover, to commemorate the proteetion
Of the Israelites, when all the first born of the
Egyptians We're destroyed.
| The feast of Tabernacles, instituted TO perpet-
uate the sojoulning Of the Israelites for forty
| years i'll the wilderness.
| The feast OF Pentecost, which was appoint
ed fifty years after the Passover to commemor-
ate the delivery of the law from Mount Sinai.
Feast of Purim, kept in memory of the
deliverance of the Jews from the wicked machin-
atons of Hannah.
In 1912 it would cost laborng man thirteen
years OF labor TO purchase bible; as his pay
would only be | y pence per day, while the price
OF Bible was 60
The Dust gGfn.
| There is not one particle in the heap the scav-
| enger removes from our houses that is not again,
and that speedily, put into circulation and