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The Old and New Testaments
Books in the Old Testament. 39 | Words.
Chapters 929 Letters Verses. 23,214 Total Books in Old and New Tests.66 Words. 592,439 Chapters.
Letters 2,728,100 Verses.
Books in the New Testament 27 Words. ....
Chapters. 260 Letters. 181,253 838,380 1,189 -31,173 773,692 3,566,480 Verses -7,959 Chapters. ..
APOCRYPHA. 152,185 183 I Verses 6,081 I Words The middle chapter and the least in the Bible is Psalm cxvii.; the middle verse is the eighth of Psalm cxviii.; the middle line is in the 2d Chronicles 4th chapter 16th verse; the word and occurs in the Old Testament 35,543 times; the same in the New Testament, 10,684 times; the word Jehovah occurs 6,855 times. Old Testamemt. The middle book is Proverbs; the middle chapter is Job xxix.; the middle verse is in 2d Chronicles 20th chapter, between the 17th and 18th verses; the least verse is in Ist Chronicles Ist chapter and 25th verse. New Testament. The middle book is the 2d Epistle to Thessalonians; the middle chapter is between the 13th and 14th of Romans; the middle verse is the 17th chapter of Acts and 17th verse; the least verse is the 11th chapter of John, verse 35; the 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Erza has all the letters of the alphabet in it; the 19th chapter of the 2d Book of Kings and the 37th of Isaiah are alike.
Distinctions in the Gospel. The point of view of the first gospel is mainly Israelitic; of the second, Gentile; of the third, universal; of the fourth, Christian. The general aspect, and, so to speak, physiognomy of the first, mainly, is Oriental ; of the second, Roman; of the third, Greek; of the fourth, spiritual. The style of the first is stately and rythmical; of the second, terse and precise; of the third, calm and copious; of the fourth, artless and colloquial. The striking characteristic of the first is symmetry; of the second, compression; of the third, order; of the fourth, system. The thought and language of the first are both Hebraistic; of the third, both Hellenistic; while in the second, thought is often accidental though the language is Hebraistic; and in the fourth, the language is Hellenistic, but the thought Hebraistic.
The Subject Matter in the first gospel is narrative; in the second memoirs; in the third, history; in the fourth, dramatic portraiture. In the first we often have the record of events in their accomplishment; in the second, events in detail; in the third, events in their connection; in the fourth, events in relation to the teaching springing from them. Thus in the first we often meet with notice of impressions; in the second, of facts; in the third, of motives; in the fourth, of words spoken. And, lastly, the record of the first is mainly collective, and often antithetical; of the second, graphic and circumstantial; of the third, didactit and reflective; of the fourth, selective and supplemental. In respect to their portraiture of our Lord, the first presents him to us mainly as the Messiah; the second, mainly as the God-man; the third, as the Redeemer; the fourth, as the only begotten Son of God. Books Mentioned in the Bible now Lost or Unknown. The Prophecy of Enoch. (
See Epistle to Jude 14.) The Book of the Wars of the Lord. (See Numbers xxi.
14.) The Prophetical Gospel of Eve, which relates to the Amours of the Sons of
God with the Daughters of Men. (See Origen cont. Celsum. Tertul., etc.) The Book of Jasher. (See Joshua x. 13; and 2 Samuel i. 18.) The Book of Iddo the Seer. (See 2 Chronicles ix. 29, and xii. 15.) The Book of Nathan the Prophet. (See as above.) The Prophecies of Ahijah, the Shilonite. (See as above.) The acts of Rehoboam, in the Book of Shemaiah. (See 2 Chronicles xii. 15.) The Book of Jehu the Son of Hanani. (See 2 Chronicles xx. 34.) The Five Books of Solomon, treating on the nature of trees, beasts, fowl, serpents, and fishes. (See 1. Kings iv. 33.) The 151st Psalm.