Show a some facts about the bible number of letters and words in the holy book counted by unfortunate confined in spanish prison the word reverend occurs but once in in the P it la Is well known that tho the number cf ct letters word verses etc con eon bained in the bible hive been koun counted ted but by whom when or sture la Is not generally known treats treat s lion tion entitled curiosities of the bible I 1 speaks of the occurrence as being of spanish origin and that the prince of granada fearing usurpation caused the arrest of the supposed suppo eed would bo be usurper and by order of the spanish crown he was thrown into an old pria prig on called the place of skulls actuated in la madrid hire hc h was confined tor for thirty three years av ith no other corn com panion than the rats mice and other vermin that frequented his dismal cell during his confinement he counted the letters etc contained in the bible and scratched the sheral numbers on the stone walli walls with a nail when his work was ts covered he was fur dished with writing utensils and or der dekoj 1 to make a copy of the results of his long and anti tedious task and on ita its being completed he finally re calved his liberty the following Is a correct copy of his great work the bible contains let words verses 1 1 chapters and 66 books the word and occurs 10 timed times the word lord 1853 1 times the word jehovah 6 times and the word reverend but once aich la Is in the ninth verse of the one hundred and eleventh psalm the middle verse Is the eighth verse of the one hundred undred 11 and eighteenth psalm the twenty first verse of the seventh chapter 0 of elra contains all the letters of the alphabet wath the except exception lon of the etter j 16 the finest chapter to read is 1 the twenty sixth chapter of the acts of thu apostles the roost most beautiful chapter te in the twenty third psalm the nineteenth chapter ot of 11 II kinge kings and the thirty seventh chapter of 0 isaiah are alike the four moet most inspiring promises are to be found in the sixth chapter of bt john thirty seventh erse verse and fourteenth chapter second verso verse also cle clementh le chapter of bt matthew matthow awen ty eighth verse and tho the thirty seventh psalm fourth tho the loaft verse Is the ninth verse eighth chapter of esther the short est verse Is the thirty fifth verse elcie nth chapter of st john there are ten chapters li to tle book of esther in which the words lord an I 1 god do not occur thi the eighth fifteenth twenty first and anti thirty first versea verses of the one hundred and seventh psalm are alike cacti each N verse erse of tho the one laundre ll I 1 and thirty sixth psalm end alike the one It hundred undred and sev entee nth psalm contains but two verges the one une hundred and nine psalm obtains ns verses there are m n words or names of more than six sit syllables it has also been discovered by some person unknown that in joel third chapter third verse the word girl occurs and in the el ath chapter of zachariah charlah Za fifth verse the word girl girls s Is mentioned for the only time in the whole book the eighth chapter of esther ninth verse contains fifty two ts is the word snow appears twenty foar times in the old testament and three times in the new boston herald |