The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-08-11
BIBLICAL MISPRINTS.
Some Remarkable Instances of typo
graphical Isiunders in the Scriptures.


graphical Biunders in the Scriptures.
Whatever may be said as to he in
erraHcy of the original autographs Of
the bible. says the i. Y. IrtGuRe, the
record of misprints aud blunders in
many editions of that book proves con-
clusively that those who handle it are
far from being inerrant About the
year 1919 Pope SiXtus V. put forth an
edition of the Vulgate, the proofs of
which he himself carefully corrected.
He was SO sure that it was all right
that he appended a bull to it excom-
municating anyone who should make
an alteration in the text. Neverthe-
less the volume was so full of mistakes
that the edition had to be suppressed.
Copies of this edition are now very
rare, and fetch high price.
There have been some remarka BILE
misprints in editions of the English
bible. In the edition of 1854 the pass
age in the twelfth Psalm, The fool
hath said in his heart, there is no
God" appeared without the word no"
and, of course. the edition was prompt
" suppressed. In the London edition
of 1858 the words worldly riches" APP
pear instead of "godly riches The
edition of Field, printer to the Uni
versity of Cambridge, in the seven
teenth century. has many misprints.
1t is said that he received Il 800 from
the Independents to print "we" for
I'VE" in the sixth verse of the third
chapter of Acts, in order to support
the theory that the people, and not the
apostles, choose their pastors, so that
the passage read: "Whcrefore, breth-
ren, look ye out among your seven
men whom we may appoint
over this business. In the same edi-
ton, the passage in |. Corinthians, vi,
9, is made to read: know We not
that the unrighteous shall inherit the
kingdom of God?" In 1917 the Clar-
endon press issued the famous Vine
gar Bible" which was 50 called be-
cause, in the twontieth chapter of
Luke, the Parable of the Vineyard APP
pears as the Parable of the Vinegar"
a curious misprint was the omission
of the word mot" in printing the sew
enth commandments. This happened
in the edition published in the reign
of Charles l., the printers being sum-
moned before the high commission
and fined IS, 90. The same omission
occurred in the thirty-fourth edition
printed at Halle, copies OF which are
extremely rare. Perhaps the most re-
markahle intended misprint occurred
in an edition of the bible published by
German widow Her late husband
was apparently worthless and disa-
greeable fellow. and as she reflected
on his many faults she grew indignant
at the passage in Genesis where God
declared to Eve that woman should
be subject to man. So she arose one
night when the workmen were absent,
aud. going to the printing room, pro-
ceeded to reverse the situation in that
passage by taking out the first two
letters of the word sherr" and replac-
ing them by "na" Thus corrected
the passage read: And he shall be
thy (narr) fool" instead of "Hc shall
be thy (herr) lord" OF course the sub
stitution was soon discovered. and the
hapless widow was burned at the stake
by the authorities. who. being men,
could not ignore this insnlt to their
sacred and superior persons.