Hora Biblica (Volume 1); Being a Connnected Series of Notes on the Text and Literary History of the Bibles, or Sacred Books of the Jews and Christians and on the Bibles or Books Accounted Sacred by the Mahometans, Hindus, Parsees, Chinese, and Scandinav (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807. Excerpt: ... master of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge, reprinted this translation, together with the Bishop's Bible, in two columns. It is a curious performance, and very much deserves the attention of those who study the subjects in controversy between the Roman Catholics and Protestants, particularly such as turn on Scriptural interpretation. The Doway Bible is printed in two volumes quarto, in 1609, 1610. It is said to be made from " the authentic Latin." A new edition of it was published in five volumes octavo, in 1750, by the late Dr. Challoner. Besides these, a translation in two volumes large octavo was published at Doway, in the year 1730, by Dr. Witham. It is enriched with useful and concise notes. XVI. It remains to observe a striking peculiarity of the Old and New Testament, --its division into Chapters And Verses. X VI. 1. The division of the Hebrew text into chapters was made by the Jews, in imitation of the division of the New Testament into chapters. But the chapters spoken of in this place must not be confounded with their Paraschioths or greater and less sections, into which, for the regular reading of it in the synagogue, they have divided the Pentateuch, a much more antient division, and still retained in the rolls of the synagogue. Their division of the Old Testament into verses, was more antient than the division of it into chapters, being probably of the same date as their invention of the vowel points. Much of the labour of the Masorites was consumed in calculating the verses, and their literal peculiarities. Thus they discovered, that the verses in the book of Genesis amounted to 1534; that its middle verse was the fortieth of the twentyseventh chapter; that the whole Bible contained twenty-three thousand two. hundred and six verses; that the Pentateu...