Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15

the square of 10. The name of Jesus is
used 4 times in Titus, IL times in II.
Thessalonians, 9 times In II. Peter, 81
times in II. Corinthians, and "a times in
Luke, the latter number being times 2
into plus 3, etc. The words Christ,
Simon (Peter). and others follow the
same law in the New Testament, and
so do Moses, Aaron, Isaac and
Jacob in the Old. The word Fa-
ther, when meaning God, is used
A times in Matthew. 121 times in
John, IA times in Luke, 81 times In Mark
and II times in the rest of the books of
the New Testament. But restoring the
word in Mark XII, 20, which il omitted
in the revised version, we have it used
% times in Mark and $50 times In the
whole book. In other words. Father
occurs always a number of lis, unless,
as in the case of Luke, its place is taken
by perfect square, and the total for
the book is times times the cube of 2.
The Book of Revelation is a perfect
treasury of sevens. One of the most
curious results brought out is that with
regard to the word Aaron. It occurs in
the Old Testament 443 times, out of
which nothing can be made, but
when to this is added the five times
it occurs in the new, the total is 44S,
which is the cube of taken
times. In regard to this curious result,
the author says: IF there was a con-
spiracy on the part of the Bible writer's
to make this out, then some 1900 years
before Christ Moses must have deter
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299 times, left orders to Joshua to use
it only 6 times, and to tell the future
writer's each to take the name only a
given number of times, SO rs to bring,
after 1900 years, the exact result Of
times the cube of f."
For any single one of the many words
thus considered the fact of its being used
just so many times as to produce a
multiple of a small number may be
regarded as an accident, but that such
fact can be deduced in relation to q
large number of words, and those the
prominent ones in the volume, is certain
ly astonishing, and furnishes ground for
support of the claim that the whole
thing was mapped out beforehand on
plan by the side of which the Cabala is
puerility itself This plan would seem
to have included not only the writing of
the several books, but even the subse-
quent selection of those composing the
canonical list of the day. The scheme,
however, is carried still further. 1t is
well known that the division into chap
tiers and verses was made much later
than the formation of the canon. Yet
it is found for the chapters that of the
66 books (6 times ~, 25 of them have a
number which is square or a cube, IL
have 10 or lis, and almost all the re-
naming books have a number of chap
ters less than Z, where from the nature
of the case the law can not apply.
The discovery here outlined, if it be
one, is of curious Importance. If there
be such a law of formation, an extern
sion of the count ought to show that it
has governed in the choice of many more
words than those collated already, and
if it be thus proven to hold good on a
comprehensive scale it would form an
argument in favor of the Divine origin of
the Bible more powerful than all those
that have been brought to bear against
it. Once prove that such a simple
set of mathematical relations per-
wade the volume and bind all it's
several parts into one harmonious
whole, and objections hitherto raised
against it, either on the supposed evil
dence of internal criticism or the ex-
ternal evidence thought to be derived
from historical comparison, will vanish
like mists before the rising sun. The
Bible will then again become the touch
stone to which all else must be referred
as an indisputable authority, though it
would not by any means be necessary
to hold that 1t discpedits the knowledge
of nature and her mysteries that have
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