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regular way, and not by the blazing faggot
route taken by poor Tyndale.
The Matthews Bible was called the Bug
Bible on account of its rendition of Psalms
xci.. 5, where the accepted version says:
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror
by night" The Matthews edition says:
so thou shalt not nede to be afraid of
any bugges by night" The allusion to
bugs is not the only popularity of this pc
culiar volume. In foot-note calculating
the text, where it says, " Sarah obeyed
Abraham and called him Lord" the oblig-
ing translators say "And VT she be not
obedyent and healpfull unto him, he en-
deavoreth to beate the feare of God into
her heade. that thereby she may be COM
PEELED to learn her duty and do vt"
In 1867 the English exiles in Geneva
issued what Is known as the German YER
sion, popularity called the "Breeches
Bible" In Genesis ill.,, I, the authorized
edition tells of Adam and Eve sewing
leaves together for aprons; the Genevaites
rendered it: . And they sewed fig leaves
together and made for themselves breeches!"
No one who has ever inspected one of
these rare old volumes will doubt its being
the work of Englishmen of the typical
sort Throughout the entire work Eve is
spelled Hevah; Adam, Hadam; Enoch,
Henock, and Abel, Habel. Hebrew is
spelled Ebrew, and the u and is used
vice versa.
POPULARITY OF THE BOOK.
The rank and glaring errors in this
edition of the sacred book did not prevent
its becoming immensely popular with the
masses. Between the years 1860 and 1880
it ran through over 200 editions, and it
was nearly 100 years before the author
lied version of 1911 entirely replaced it.
One Of these editions is known to the
biblomaniac under the name of the
"Placemaker's Bible" the text which
should be "peacemakers" being so rem
dered
"The Bishops Bible" collated and
amended by congress of Bishops and
other learned church dignataries, was be-
gun in 1868, under the supervision of
Archbishop Parker, and finished in 1889,
after twenty-one years of laborous work.
The Bishops Bible is also the famous
'Treacle Bible" so-called because it styles
the "balm of Gilead" the "treacle of
Gilead." The Douay version, which will
be considered in its proper place, calls the
balm of Cfilead the rosin of Gilead. The
text which reads "Cast thy bread upon the
waters" in the King James Bible reads as
''Lay thy bread upon wet faces" in the
Bishops Bible The rendition of the
text in the Matthews Bible is even more
perplexing. 1t is: "Send the vyttuavis
over the waters" Ophir, according to a
foot note in the edition of 1889, dis
thought to be the Christopher Columbo
(America) from whence at this day is
brought much fine gold"
HE and She Bibles are so called be-
cause one renders Ruth iii, Is, Gle went
into the city" The other, that "She went
into the city" The printer who made his
work famous by this transposition lived
and worked in the early part of the seven
teenth century.
ERRORS AND OMISSIONS.
Besides those already enumerated there
are several other and later editions, rend-
cred famous by omissions or substitutions
"The Wicked Bible" the authorized
edition of 1851, had the name bestowed on
it because the word mot" was omitted
from the seventh commandment. See
Exodus TX, IA The printers were Rob
ert Barker and Martin Lucas, each of
whom was fined $4,000 for their careless
ness.
it is said that DIR. Scrivener found
German Bible with the same identical
word omitted, at WoIfenbuttle, in 1911.
J. Basket, the Oxford Bible printer of
1717, is, perhaps, responsible for more
typographical errors in the Bible than
any other one man who has ever lived.
One of Baskets first editions was the
"Vinegar Bible" taking its extraordinary
name from the fact that the headlines of
the Goth chapter of Luke read: "The
Parable of the Vinegar" instead of "The
Parable of the Vineyard" 1t swarmed
with thousands of other rank faults, and
was known, even while the printer was
still alive, as Baskets basketful of errors"
"Ghe Prosecuted Printers Bible" APP
peared in 1902. 1t was from a translation
or general rewriting by Cotton Mather.
The sentence which gives it its peculiar
name is found in Psalms cxix., where the
psaimist speaks of the Princes prosecuting
him without cause. Mather or his typog-
rapher renders it: "And the printers per-
secuted me without cause"
"The Ears to Ear Bible" is an Oxford
edition of the present century, it bearing
the imprint of 1910. In setting up Mat
thew xii, 43, the sentence which reads: "He
that hath an ear to hear let him hear"
was rendered by the cockney typo: "He
that ears to ear let him ear"
The most remarkable thing, however, in
late Bible misprints is the three editions
1906, 1918 and 1898, of the standing
Fishes Bible" The edition of 1906 made
Ezekiel xvii, 10, read as: "And it shall
come 10 pass that the fishes shall stand
upon it." when it should be; ''The fishers
shall stand upon it."
In the two other editions such glaring
fault was overlooked and it was not cor
rected for over third of century after it
first appeared.
BIBLE STATISTICS.
After the Bishops translation of 1863
1859, nothing further in that line was ac-
complished until 1609-1610, when the Ro-
man Catholics brought out the Douay
Bible, so called because it was printed at
city of that name. A year later, in 1911,
the English press issued the King James
revision.
The translation Of 1911 has remained
the standard up even to this day, notwith-
standing the recent revision, the merit of
which rests almost wholly on the fact that
"helP' was changed to shades"
The Bible of to-day (Old Testament)
contains 80 books, 929 chapters, 1914
verses, 592, 439 words and 2,73S, 100 letters.
The New Testament has q books, 270
chapters, 1867 verses, 132, 253 words and
933, $50 letters.
In speaking of the Bible it is generally
understood that we mean the two books,
the Old and the New Testament, which,
taken collectively, have &c books, 1,199
chapters, g, l7S verses, 1852 words and
3,566, 4S0 letters.
The word Lord, or its equivalent, Jeho-
yah, occurs 1893 times in the Old Tesla
ment, OF, to be more exact, the word Lord
occurs 1858 times and the word Jehovah
1854 times.
The Apocrypha rejected by the council
of Nice as uninspired, but sometimes
bound with the inspired portions) contains
IA books, 1S3 chapters, 1901 verses and
153, 1S5 words.
The shortest chapter in the Bible, and
which IL also the middle chanter is