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. 1884 Excerpt: ...seems to have been the first to introduce this simple plan into the United States of America, and who has certainly carried it out with singular skill and discretion. For indeed the division of the sacred text into sections suitable for general use will not be deemed an easy matter by any one who has essayed it. If we ...
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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. 1884 Excerpt: ...seems to have been the first to introduce this simple plan into the United States of America, and who has certainly carried it out with singular skill and discretion. For indeed the division of the sacred text into sections suitable for general use will not be deemed an easy matter by any one who has essayed it. If we look only to the broad and prominent breaks in a Bible narrative or discourse, they will usually be found too far apart for the reader's convenience: if the subordinate members be separated from each other, the result will often be a virtual return to the discarded verse divisions. Something between these two extremes is to be aimed at, and in this effort there is room as well for much honest difference of opinion, as for the exercise of careful discrimination and a subtil faculty of analysis. From the marks of paragraph division (II) employed for the first time in the Authorized Version, little help can be derived. They are unequally and capriciously distributed, and in both issues of 16 1 1 and in the Bible of 1613 they cease altogether after Acts xx. 36: nor have they any perceptible connection with the headings of the chapters, hereafter to be mentioned. The editor of the Cambridge Paragraph Bible would have been glad, in the prosecution of this portion of his task, if he could have followed rather 1 The Holy Bible with the text Nourse. Boston and Philadelphia, ofthecommonTranslation arranged 1836. Preface, pp. I, i. in Paragraphs, &c. By James than preceded the publication of the new Church Lectionary of 1871. It is, however, with great satisfaction that on comparing the paragraphs in this volume with the beginnings and endings of the Lessons as appointed by the Royal Commissioners, he has been able to note a resemblance between the t...
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