p. 12 | Facts About the Bible

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 30, 1908

Facts About the Bible

[A correspondent of the Washington Herald wrote the following communication for that paper, and we pass it along for the benefit of the readers of the REVIEW.—ED.]

THE learned Prince of Granada, heir to the Spanish throne, imprisoned by order of the crown, for fear he should aspire to the throne, was kept in solitary confinement in the old prison at the “Place of Skulls,” Madrid. After thirty-three years in this living tomb, death came to release him, and the following remarkable researches, taken from the Bible, and marked with an old nail on the rough walls of his cell, told how the brain sought employment through the weary years:—

“In the Bible the word ‘Lord’ is found 1,853 times; the word ‘Jehovah,’ 6,855 times, and the word ‘reverend’ but once, and that is in the ninth verse of the 111th Psalm. The eighth verse of the 117th Psalm is the middle verse of the Bible. The ninth verse of the eighth chapter of Esther is the longest verse, and the thirty-fifth verse of the eleventh chapter of St. John is the shortest. In the 107th Psalm four verses are alike. No names or words with more than six syllables are found in the Bible. The thirty-seventh chapter of Isaiah and the nineteenth chapter of Second Kings are alike. The word ‘girl’ occurs but once in the Bible, and that is in the third verse of the third chapter of Joel. There are found in both books of the Bible 3,586,483 letters, 773,693 words, 31,373 verses, 1,189 chapters, and sixty-six books. The twenty-sixth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles is the finest chapter to read. The most beautiful chapter in the Bible is the twenty-third Psalm. The four most inspiring promises are in John, fourteenth chapter and second verse; twenty-eighth verse; and thirty-seventh verse; St. Matthew, eleventh chapter and twenty-eighth verse, and thirty-seventh Psalm, fourth verse. The first verse of the sixtieth chapter of Isaiah is the one for the new convert. All who flatter themselves with vain boastings of their perfectness should learn the sixth chapter of Matthew. All humanity should learn the sixth chapter of St. Luke, from the twentieth verse to its ending.”