New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-18
AP0CRYPHA
Books, chapters 1873 verses, e,os1; words 1251s6
letters t,003 S76.

APoCRYPHA.
Books, al chapters 1s3 verses s,os1; words 1885,
The middle book is Micah. The middle land small
est chapter ia Psalm cxv The middle verse is Psalm
exvi & The middle line Is u Chronicles ~. u.s.; the
Is Psalm cxix. The word Jehovah Tor Lord occurs
The number Of authors of the Bible is fifty.
THE OLD TESTAMENT.
The middle book Of the Old Testament iS Proverbs
The middle chapter is Job xxx. The middle verse is
shortest book is obadiah. The shortest verse is
Chronicles 20. The word and" occurs 3O,64S times
The word Selah" occurs seventy three times and only
in the pOeteai books II Kings xix and Isaiah AZ xvii
these Scriptures, being transcripts from public records
by two different writers, who were not contemporaries
deSces The book Of Esther does not contain the
words God or LORD The last two verses od II Chron
is 'H ' o s a s sHSs of Ezra
There se p merry THIRTY BOOKS sI mendonsd Snt net
ANCIENT n %g no~ nea ali lost The eo
formed part Of tho Holy Scriptures About twenty six
Of these alluded to In the Old Testament.
THE NEW TESTAMENT.
The middle book Is II Thessalonians. The middle
The smallest verse is John H. IS. The word "and"
2oo times in the Gospels and Acts and in the Epstles
less than seventy times The name Christ alone occurs
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24O times in the Epistles and Revelation. The term
Jesus Christ occurs five times n the Gospels a. divided
ilto chapters and verses The division of chapters
has been attributed to LanfLank, Archbishop Of Can
in f5S @ Of %a% ana Sy Sos sb B
the real author Of this division Cardinal Hugo dc
The facility Of reference thus afforded was further
increased by the Introduction of the present system of
verses; this was done for the New Testament, in
on Ss But long before S . Heb ieg ne
had been divided into verses by Jewish Rabbi,
2 The number Of langnsSes on earth is estimated Ct
are those Of King james, Commonly ' eaed tho
protestau verson) and the Douay, Roman Catholic
in It the reign Of James ], A. D. 1oo9-iG1i, by forty
seven Episcopalian bishops and other clergy. The
Douay version translated from the Latin vulgate
olated with the Hebrew and Creek by four professor:
| Of theology IN the English College at Douay, A. d
g. The Latin vugate is the later translation Of the
Bible in common lor yrlgate use IN Catholic churches
monk 1t is highly esteemed by all.
d. The earliest translation known Of the Bible was
the version Of the on esta1 9s called the sePgaSp
seventy learned interpreters from which 1t has derived
| It's common title septaagnta, meaning seventy.
Bible was by WicFife in A. D. 1850 Xtempts' with
partial success had before been made by the Venerable
OF ST. Johns Gospel King Alfred. A. d. 300 contn-
ned it. It had IN part been Translated trans into Anglo
made A. D. 1IeO for the waldenses. by their great
leader, Peter Walden. In Spanish there was made
| In Germany a version was made; about A. D. 1860
Luther made new translation INTO German Of The
| New Testament about A. d. 1922 and Of the Old
g The first American edition was printed in BOSTON,
A. d. 1852. In the time Of Edward ]. A. d. 1880 O
copy Of the Bible valued et sI64 Of currency
now they Issue at the rate of three Bibles and hall
Ge css. o. the benes arising from '9 e n SsT4
and present advanced state OF the art Of printing