Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-11-05
3tligiuas department.
THE BIBLE.

There may be few OF our readers
who arc unacquainted with the Biblical
facts. consequently we insert few for
their especial benefit The Scriptures
have been translated into one hundred
and forty-eight languages and dialects,
Of which one hundred and twenty-one
had prior to the formation of the British
Foreign Bible Society. never appeared.
And twenty-five of these languages ex-
listed without an oral form. Upward of
fOrty-three millions of these copies and
circulated among not less than six
hundred millions of people.
The first division of the Divine order
in chapters and verses is attributed to
Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Can
terbury, in the reign Of King John, IN
the latter part Of the twelfth century 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, Jew Of Amsterdam,
divided the sections Of Hugo. into verses
"A French printer had C56D divided
the New Testament into verses as they
now are.
The Old Testament contains SO books.
929 chapters. 1924 verses, 592,439
words and $685. 100 letters.
The New Testament contains 81 books,
go chapters, 1881 verses, 1928
words and 933. $50 letters.
The entire Bible contains Sc books,
l.l9O chapters, S1.l74 verses, 1852
words. 1866, 4sO letters.
The name Jehovah, or Lord, occurs
$3.50 times in the Old Testament.
The word land" occurs in the Old
Testament 35,543 times
The middle book of the Old Tesla
ment is Proverbs.
The middle chapter is the 2Oth,Of Job.
The middle verse is the End Chroni-
cles, Goth chapter, 18th verse.
The middle book of the New Testa-
ment is I'd Thessalonians.
The middle chapters are Romans 18th
and l4th.
The middle verse is Acts IL IL.
The middle chapter and the least in
the Bible is Psalms 49,: 8.
The least verse in the Old Testament
lst Chronicles, | %.
The least verse in the Bible Is John
IL: 35.
The 10th verse of 9TH chapter Of
Ezra are all the letters of the alphabet,
and considered as one.
The Apocrypha not inspired, but
somes bound between the Old Testament
and the New contain IA books, 1875
chapters, 1901 verses, and l58,185
words.
The preceding facts were ascertaineC
by gentleman in 1918; also by al
Englishman residing at Amsterdam
1922, and is said to have taken eacl
gentleman nearly three years in tn
investigation.
There is Bible in the library of tn
University in GOttengen written o
2,470 palm leaves.
A shekel of gold was $500.
A talent Of silver was $5l6.32.
A tOlent of gold was $l3,sO9.
A piece of silver or a penny wa
thirteen cents.
A gerhem was one cent.
A mite was one and half cents.
A homer contains seventy five gallor
and five pints.
A hin was one gallon and two pints.
A frkin was seven pints.
An omer was six pints.
The divisions of the Old Testamel
are Tour:
l. The Pentateuch, or the four bool
of Moses.
2. The historical books, comprisir
Joshua TO Esther, inclusive.
POetical and doctrinal books, fro
Job to Songs of Solomon, inclusive.
4. Prophetic books, from Isaiah
Malachi.
The New Testament is usually divi
ed into three parts:
l. Historical, containing the fo
gospels and Acts.
2. DOctrinal, comprising all the cpl
ties from Romans to Judea.
8. PrOphetical, being the book
Revelations of st. John.
The PERFRCTNRss OF Cons WORK.