Show 4 or OF THIC BIBLE singular ac account colini of a pra practice stice now current in england of mutilating he bible is copied from a liverpool the statement was made by a clergyman of that city as wo we judge to hi his 9 c congregation on the hixt sr of september last is there sterns good reasor for be believing lievin ing that hat imperfect bibles are quite quita common in somi some whole chapters appear to be in others particular texts are notta noto ba found so that a complete copy of thi the 5 scriptures is tery rare it may be well Irell to mention a few of the bof deficiencies es most frequently occurring I 1 1 in a 4 great many bibles the ahe ar chapter of let corinthians from the verse to the ed is altogether wanting besides two or three passages pope ages in ill the gospels in this churill church there must I 1 be than thana a hundred bibles out of which those hose leaves havo been I 1 lost st 4 2 calior AALI or pa ge otell often jn missing issi is is the T chapter chadjo of f st t matthew adlie froni from the lath verse to the end frideen fri deed ahw the whole iloie of thc jhc SO sermon rmon on the mount is r fred frequently torn and tb the e all allegory 0 ry of of I 1 I 1 the two houses at the end of it almost rubbed I 1 out I 1 I 1 3 al AI the texts which speak of I 1 perfecting or finishing a work as psalms ii 8 or Phillip ians i 6 are not to be oe found in ili many ci copies I 1 es in ili others such verses as luke mi 10 are p partly t 1 y or choly lost I 1 I 1 4 still more remarkable is the fact that tha deficiencies in bibles are different at different times at present th the parts which it is becoming the fashion to tear out are the verse of matthew xiv the ii of Collos frow the to verse the former part of ofed 24 timothy in III 16 the in ili of st johns gospel bud and the first chapter ter of his first epistle are a always ways perfect those who desire to the motives which may havelec have lod to the practices in question will learn something by referring to the texts enumerated above the investigation will be found somewhat curious boston courier |