Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-10-09
SOME POPULAR MISTAKES.
Things Supposed to Be In the Bible
Not There.


Not There.
OF popular fallacies, those relating to
the Bible are perhaps the most widely
current. 1t Is commonly stated that
after the flood Noah's Ark rested on
Mount Ararat. But what the Bible
says in the Book of Genesis is that 1t
rested ION the mountains Of Ararat."
Ararat being the name Of dis
trict which included the elevations on
which the ark came to rest This is
not quite so bad as the man who said
he was glad he had gone to church on
a certain Sunday, for he learned that
Sodom and Gomorrah were cities, and
he had always supposed they were men
and wife
1t is the popular belief that the fruit
which Eve aud Adam ate in the gar
den eastward in Eden" was an apple,
but there Is no authority for this, for
T. is simply called the fruit Of the tree
of knowledge Of good and evil: "And
when the woman saw that the tree was
good for food and that it was pleasant
to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to
make one wise, she took of the fruit
thereof, and did eat, and gave also un-
to her husband with her; and he did
eat" The fallacy that the fruit was
an apple has been carried so far that
the legend says that the apple" stuck
in Adams throat, hence the Adams
apple" for the thyroid cartilage Of the
larynx, which is more prominent in a
mans throat than in a woman's.
So it Is also a fallacy that our first
parents were punished by being ex-
cluded from the Garden Gf Eden for
eating the forbidden fruit. Several
punishments were imposed on both Of
them for disobedience OF the command
Of the Lord God, but the reason for
their exclusion is as follows: And the
Lord God said, Behold, the man has
become as one Of us, to know good
and evil; and now, lest he put forth
his hand and take also Of the tree Of
life and eat and live forever therefore
the Lord God sent him forth from the
Garden Of Eden to till the ground from
whence he was taken" Another pop
ular misconception in regard to the
human race, which has grown up from
the Book of Genesis, Is that man has
one less rib than woman, based on
the account that the Lord God took a
rib from Adam while he slept, and Of
the rib; which the Lord God had TAX
en- from man, made he a woman, and
brought her unto the man." But ex-
animation Of the skeletons Of both
sexes shows the same number Of ribs
in each.
There are several popular quotations
almost invariably attributed to the BIZ
Bile. God tempers the wind to the
shorn lamb" is from Sterne's "Senti-
mental Journey to Italy" I'm the
midst of life we are in death" is in the
burial service, and came originally from
Luther. 1.-The merciful man is merci-
full to his beast" is the popular cor
ruption of "A righteous man regardeth
the life of his beast" as found In Pro-
verbs. Money is the root Of eviP' Is
twisted from st. Paups utterance, THE
love Of money Is the root Of all evil
Cleanliness is next to- godliness," in
stead of being in the Bible, is attri-
buted to Eusebius, a sermon on dress.
Little children, love one another" Is
not found in the Bible, but is attr1-
buted by Eusebius to st. John in his
old age.
The name of the rich man in the
parable of the rich man and Lazarus
is popularity supposed to be Dives and
It Is frequently so used. But the word
Dives is not found in the English Ver-
sion Of the Gospel Of st. Luke, In which
the parable appears, the certain ricn
man" having no name. The word
dives" meaning rich man." appears
in the Vulgate, and came to be USED
on paintings Of the scene in mediaeVal
times, the Latin inscription frequently
being olives ct lazarus" but had the
order of the words been reversed 1t
would have been Lazarus ct dives"
the latter word not being capitalized.
The common quotation, 1.-THE tongue Is
an unruly member" as it appears in
the Epistle of st. James Is, THE
tongue can no man tame; 1t is an un-
ruly evil" the saying truth Is mighty
and will prevail, as it appears in the
First Book of Esdras, in the Apocry-
pha, reads, Great is truth, and mighty
above all things"
The phrase in Second Corinthians,
mot to think Of men above that which
is written" is usually quoted ITO be
wise above that which is written
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