The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-05

and bound in twelve hours, and that
only one hundred copies were struck
off.
The Knave Bible" was a version of
the Coverdale Bible. printed at Zurich,
and dedicated to Henry VIII. A curl
GUS story has been handed down con-
corning this peculiar edition. An idea
was propagated that in a few copies of
Matthews Bible the Apostle Paul had
designated himself Paul, a knave Of
Jesus Christ" OF course, no such BIZ
BILE existed, and the Duke of Lauder
dale, the Scotch yiceroy of Charles II,
having in vain endeavored to obtain
one, it occurred to a worthless fellow
named Thornton that he could crafty
the dukes desire by exercising a little
ingenuity, and perhaps serve himself
at t!.e same time.
He procured a Matthew Bible. and
from the date MDXXxV he erased the
last two numerals. leaving the date
1920. After this daring imposition he
rubbed out the word "serwaunte" in
Romans {. !. and inserted "kuNawe,"
the latter word being made up from
letters which he had cut from other
parts of the Bible. This mutilated book
was taken to the duke, who gave
Thornton u guineas for it, and subse-
quently had his arms and coronet
stamped upon both covers. sFrom this
incident It received the name of THE
Knave Bible"
THE British Diamond Bible" was
printed in Bristol in IVA by w. Pine,
and published with notes. as q common
tary. to evade the Kings printers mo-
nopoly. The notes were spaced on
from the foot of the page and cut away
when the book was bound. 1t was
cunning way of evading the law as 1t
then existed and of affording proht
to the publisher.
"The PehrI Bible" was issued in 1858,
and the edition, so called on account
of the diminutiVe type. was printed
| in London by John Field, and is noted
for it's wonderful typographical blund-
ers. Field was an unscrupulous Tor
ger, and it is said of him that he re-
ceived e1,500 from the Independents
| for corrupting the text of Acts vi, j,
| by substituting we" for we" to sane
| ton the right of the people to appoint
their own clergy. Among other errors
in this version may be mentioned "un-
| right eousness" for righteousness in
Romans vi, 13, and in Corinthians
vi, 9, the text read, Know We not that
the unrighteous shall inherit the king
dom of God?"
The "Religious Bible" was published
in Edinburgh during the year 1927
and the line in jeremiah iv. II, which
refers to the commonwealth of Judah
! instead of Because she hath been re-
| bellious against me, saith the Lord, y
was printed, Because she hath been
religious against me-"
All Scriptural misprints are not the
results of accident 1t was the de-
sign of a printers widow in Germany
to upset the whole system of domestic
| economy. A new edition of the Bible
was being printed in her house, and
| one night, when all the workmen were
| absent, she rose from her bed and pro-
coded to the printing room. there to
| tamper with the type and falsify text
| that had caused her much trouble. Her
better half had, without doubt, given
| her frequent cause to protest in her
| heart against that sentence of woman's
subsection which is pronounced upon
Eve in the third chapter of Genesis.
| To rescue her sex from its false posi-
/ ton, she resolved to alter the relative
| situations of the parties, and taking
| out the first two letters of the word
| Herr" cunningly replaced them by
| Ma" BY this means the decree ran
And he shall be thy (Narr) fool" in
| stead of 'he shall be thy ((Herr) lord -
This substitution, though submitted to
in domestic life-as, perhaps, was the
case-was not suffered to pass by those
who were in authority without pun
| ishment, and the widow was burned
| for heresy.
Even the writer's of the Scriptures
were not always at their best, for in
the thirty-seventh chapter of Isaiah It
| is written: Then the angel of the Lord
went forth and smote in the camp
| of the Assyrians a hundred and four
score and five thousand and when they
| arose in the morning, behold they were
all dead corpses," which the Revised
Version makes dead bodies"