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Show SOME BIBLE FACTS. Dr. Thomas Home, an English Bible scholar and critic, who died in 1862, devoted several years to compiling com-piling interesting facts about the Bible, among them being the following: follow-ing: The Bible is composed of 66 books containing 1,189 chapters, 41,173 verses, 774,746 words, and 3,566,480 letters. The shortest verse is John 11:35, and contains only the two words, "Jesus wept." The longest verse is Esther 8:9. The word "Lord" occurs 1,853 times; "Jehovah," 5,845 times; the word "girl" only twice; "everlasting fire" is found twice, while the words "everlasting punishment," "eternity" and "reverend" occur only once each. Several verses are duplicated, thus four verses in the 107th Psalm are identical, and the 36th chapter of Isair.h and the 19th chapter of II Kings, are exactly the same. No original manuscript of any portion por-tion of the Eible is in existence. The oldest manuscript known, a fragment of the 11th chapter of the Psalms, thought to have been written in the third century, is preserved in the British museum. The Bible as we know it has come down to us through many translations, the first complete English translation having been made ty John Wycliffe, who died in 1384, and his fellow workers, Nicholas and Purvey. William Tyndale was the first to print the Bible in English, beginning in 1525. Ho printed all of the New Testament and a small portion of the Old, but his translation came under the displeasure of the ecclesiastical juithorities. After 15 months' imprisonment, impris-onment, he was tried and burned at the stake for heresy on October 6, 1536. |