Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-22
The Nclp Testament.

The Ncw Testament.
The middle book is the II Thees6 loniens.
The middle chapter is between Romans Kill
aad xiv. The 'ddle verae is Acts xvii, IL.
The smallest book is II Jotn. The smallest
verse Is John xi, 35 The word ''and" occurs
10 6S4 times. The anne Jesus occurs nea ar
Iy 700 tiEaes in the Gospels end Acts, and in
the Epistlee lese thnn seventy times The
name Christ alone occurs ebout sixty times
in .he Gospels and Acts, aud about 240 times
In the Epistes and Revelation. The term
Jesus Christ occurs five times In the Gospels.
I. The Bible was not until modern times
divided into chapters ard Verses. The di-
visiol OF chapters has been attributed to
Lsnsrsuk, Archbishop of Canterbury, In the
reiau of WilliaD, /, aud by others to Arch
bishop Lsngton, OF Canterbury, A D. 1906 !;
hut the real author of this division was
Csrdioa Hugo dc Sanc'o Caro-, about thirty
years later.
TIE facility OF reference thus afforded wes
further increased by the Introduction OF the
present system of verse;. This was done for
the New Testament, in 1914. by B. Stephen,
q French printer, it Is said, while on horse
back but long before this the Hebrew
Bible had been divided Into veraes by a
Jewish Rabbi, Mordecai Nathan.
Is Il
estimated at 5000; the Bible or parts OF it
have been rendered into only about lSO.
The two principal Eoglieh versions are
those OF "Kipg James" (conmouy called
the Protestant version) and the Douay, or
Roman Catholic. The former was traus-
lated from the Hebrew and Greek In the
reign Of James 1, A. D. 16Oe-1611, by AZ
Episcopal bishops and other clergy. The
frop cd fro7 z bo Lot N
VuIgsta, collated With the Hebrew and
Greek, bv four professors of theology In the
Eoglish College at Dousy, A. D. 1909
5. The Latte Vulgste is tho later transls
ton of the Bible 10 common Tor VaIgate) use
10 Catholic churches. Il was made a. D..
3S4 by Ct. Eieronymus, learned monk. 1t
is highly esteemed By ell.
4. The earliest translation known OF the
Bible was the version OF the Od Testament
called the Septusgins, into Greek, made in
Egypt 2S5 gears before Christ By seventy
Learned interpreters, from which 1t has de-
rived its common title Septusginta, mean
Ing seventy.
( Tho first English translation complete o. the
Bible was BIZ Wicklife in A. D. 1880. Attempts,
with martial success had before been made by the
Venerable Bsde, A. D. 1856, who died as he I'm.
ished the last words CT st. Johns Gospel. King
Alfred, A. D. 900. Continued 1t. 1t mad In part
been translated into Ang lo-saxon, even before
Rsde Tn French version was made A. D. 1160
for the Waldenses, by their great leader, Peter
Walden In Spsnish there wsu one made & D.
1890 by order of Alphonse, King of CASTLE IL In
Germany version was msde shout A. D. l46o.
I,nrher made new translation into German OF the
New Testament about A. D. 1922 and OF she olo
Testament ten years later,
6 The first American edition WAS printed in
Boston, A. D 1852. In the time OF Edward !.
A. D. 1850, copy of the Bible was valued at
S164 O: our currency now they issne at the ratio
of three Bibles and half per minute at cost
OF cent per copy. Such is one class OF the bene-
fits arising from the invention and present ad-
vanced state Of the art of printing.-Notes md