The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-06-18
Ontline on Entire Bible.

| Ii. Glasses of composition? History (22),
Poetry (5). Prophecy tlS), Epistles (21l.
10. Two grand divisions? Old Testament
New Testament.
l6. Six sub.divisions2 History, Poetry,
Prophecy, History. Epistles, Prophecy.
II. When Received Version rendered into
English? 1911.
is. Anglo.saxon psstiong 2s-29ths
10 Why some Words in Italics2 Not in
| original.
90. Why LORD in small capitalist Original
Jehovah.
81. Printed in how many languages? $50
% By whom printed? British and Foreign
Bible Society, 1904. American Bible
Society, 1916.
90 Who first divided the Bible into chap.
tiers? Cardinal Hugo about 1850 A. D..
"a Who first divided the Bible into verses
Rabbi Isaac Nathan, the Old Tesla
ment, about the year 1i40 A. ID. Rob-
ert Stephanus. the New Testament,
about the year 1861.
% Number of Books? Sc.
26 Number of chapters? 1,189.
81 Number of verses? 81 l73.
IS. Number of words? 1862.
%. Number of letters? 1866 S0.
80 Number OF ems? Diamond, 2,775, 269 !;
nonparel, 2,s07, $40.
81. Chapter with most verses? Ps. 119 (176).
30. Middle chapter? Ps, III.
33. Middle verse? Ps., l18: s.
81. Longest chapter?
30. Shortest chapter? Ps., III.
So Book first as to number of chapters I?
Psalms 150l.
81. Book second as to number of chapters?
Isaiah &C.,
3S. Book third as to number of chapters?
Genesis t50).
80. Books consisting of but chapter !?
Obadiah. Philemon. 2 st. John, 3 st.
John, st. Jude.
30. Longest Verse? Est, % 40 words)
Al Shortest verse? st. John, IL 35 two
words, nine letters.
% Longest word2 None over six syllables.
a. Longest proper name? See Isa., 81.
Al. Number of times "and" in Bible? 49,
As Number of times lord" in Bible
1853.
46. Number of times Jehovah" in Bible
6,655.
AZ Verse withsal the alphabet in it except
the letter i2, Err, 1921.
4S. Two chapters alike? XII, 10; Isa, 81.
/. Tho Holy Scriptures were impaired by
the Holy Spirit t3Holt men whose business
to receive the accounts by dictation and make
them known TO the world. 2 st. Pet, / 81.
2. The writers oftbo Bible were not authors.
They simply recorded the will OF God, and may
fifty be styled am4puerses Therefore. az such
writers. s.,.,-,
3. They who study the Bible in English
miss a certain flavor of the Truth. 1t is well if
one he able TO read the Bible in the original. The
exp0unders of the. Bible. and they are specially
the clergy, should be able to deal at first hand
with Gods words. 1t is fortunate. however,
that they who are, not able 10 read Hebrew aud
Greek are fur nished y translation accurate
as that printed by our British and American
Bible Societies. Tor g..
4. 1t does not scent THAT any of the Holy
Scriptures were wFittenIn Africa, and OF course
no part originated an our American hemisphere.
IL is barely possible that portions of Genesis
were originally written in A frca and collected
by Moses.
5. There is not absolute certainty to the
date of the Book of Job. 1t makes no reference
to any other portion Of Scriptures, and seems to
have been written IN complete ignorance OF any
such writings. Tie Book of Genesis WAS writ
ten, we may say. about 25l5 A. N. Sune emf
nent scholars see reasons for dating the Book of
Job still earlier.
6. If Job were written 24s4 A. NJ. and that
were the earliest Bible Book, then the world
without any Bible for 2,4S4 years. The
people for about 800 years had no Bible. We
are informed that during those years, God APP
peared at times TO eminent men and made
special revelations These probably spread
among the people and served the purposes, in
measure, of Bible.
Z. The last Bible Book written was the Book
OF Revelations, properly therefore put at the
end OF the entire Bible-written by St John
Evangelist the Island of Patmos
8. st. John lived till the close of the first
century, aud wrote Revelations in the last years
Of his life.
g. II We date the first book of the Bible
job A. NJ. 24Si, then the Bible was begun
34I6 years ago. The Christian era began 1904
A. NJ. Dcducting 2,ISi from 1904 and we find
the Book OF job WAS written 1920 b. G. By add.
ing 10 1920 b. G. present year 1896 A. d.,
we get the number 3,4l6 1t was, hence, 3,4l8
years ago that our Bible was begun.
10. The Bible was completed in the year 81
A. d. That was 500 less 81 years ago. or 100
years ago.
IL We notice tho Bible was begun 1920 b. C..
and finished 81 A. ID. Hence, the writing
covered 1,6l7 years
IL. Bible history began with creation and
terminated with the end Of the first Christian
century. We may say it covered history of
forty.o hundreds of years.
I3. There are % historical books, five poetic,
Is prophetic, and 81 cpistolary.
Ia. The Received Tor Authorized) Version of
the Bible was made by order Of James l., Eng
land. l6ll. 1t done by AZ learned men.
They translated the Hebrew and Greek into
English. The Revised Version of 1885 has not
received full acceptance, and IS little used. 1t
is very scholarly Anu accurate. anu Wnie "
cannot suppant the Received Version of 1911,
it can be very proftably compared with that,
and often help to better understanding of the
text
Is. We all feel the peculiar tone of Bible
language 1t is simple. aud lis words are dear
to us. The secret ii Is i'm the large percentage
OF Anglo-SaxoB. Much of Shakspere is similar.
This, too. is q reason why Bunyan has gained
such hold. las ...
Is. The translat0rs frequently found it
necessary to intrmiuca q word. or words, not in
the original to mako more plain or connective
their rendering Ali words thus introduced
are printed in italics
IL. When the word Lord is printed in small
capital letters, LoEp, we are tn understand that
the original {Hebrew) werd was Jehovah.
This word was considered by the Jews too
sacred for human pronunciation, and whenever
it occurred in their writings they substituted
for utterance tho word which We render Lord.
Is. An EN- equals the square or quadriiateral
of body Of any sized type, usually the letter
NJ, taken as n upAt Of measurement in deter
mining wages to lie paid to the composition. or
in settling upon the size OF a page of printed
matter. or in fixing the price of job of print
ing work. In Great Britain the standard is an
u. plea en- is four times as large AS non-
pariel, aud Of course twice the hight or
breadth of noHpariel. The number OF ems,
plea. in the Bible is 1,403.92O; OF nonpariei,
2,s07 $40; Of diamond, 2,775,269.
ID. Ii one have reference to the Bible and
have lost the name of the Book, If he see that
the chapter is more than 80. he knows the
reference is TO Isaiah or the Psaima
n