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Show ! Bible Written in 7s J The phenomena of the figure 7 and Its multlploB, occurring in tho Now Testament, have, boon touched upon by Ivan Panln, a Russian student of tho blblo, who for a number of yonrs has mado his homo nt Grafton, Mass. Tho Blgnlflcanco of tho "sovon" group will not be lost evon upon tho superstitious super-stitious who aro outsldo of tho pale of scriptural points, and, as Mr. Panln has shown them, tholr relations of their groupings to tho first cloven rnrana nt lin Mow Tnntfimnnt must suggest thnt thoy wero scarcoly chance. For Instance In theso first olovon verses of Matthew, th6 vocabulary consists of forty-nine wordB, or sovon I sevens; of theso words tharo aro twenty-eight, or four sevens, which 1 begin with vowola. and twonty-ouo, or I JVLo B'ovons, which Uogln with con- si'hlB distribution iiy bovoub (between (be-tween vowol words 'and consonfint wbrds Just might havo boon deemed deem-ed accidental, but for tho fact that of the forty-nlno words forty-two H of thorn aro nouns six Bovens and H soven aro not nouns," Is tho commont H of tho writer. "Of tho forty-two B nouns thero aro thirty-five proper M nouns, or flvo sovcus, while sovon aro H common nouns. Of tho thlrty-flvo M proper names four sovens aro mnlo H ancestors of Jesus and soven aro not H such. Not only thon Is tho dlstrlbu- M tlon of tho forty-nlno words of tho vo- H cabulnry by sovens ns botweon vowol H words and consonant words but also H as between tho parts of speech." " An n fnrtlior and absolute liroof that LH theso phenomena of tho sovens aro H not accidental Mr. Panln points out H that tho forty-nlno words of tho vo- M cabulnry show fourteen words that M aro not used but onco, whllo thirty- H flvo of thorn, or flvo sovoiib, aro used r"l moro than once. His conclusions aft- M cr an oxhaustlvo arrangement of tho -iB "soven" foaturea are that "Not evon 'thf cholco of tho langlWr"'s--?l,' .xH thi? scriptures woro vf'SSSiisr TB without marked numerical design' at . B tho threshold of tho Bubject." s m -vT""H |