Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — MISPRINTS IN THE BIBLE. [ARTICLE]

MISPRINTS IN THE BIBLE.

Curious Errors Which Have Been Found iu Editions of Holy Writ. Many lists of misprints in the Bible have been printed, but the following, compiled by the Brooklyn Eagle, is probably the best in existence: The Breeches Bible is so named because it contains the phrase, “They sewed figge tree leaves together, and made themse' ves bi eeches. ” Genesis 3:7. Printed in 1506. The Bug Bible: “So that thou shalt not nede to be afraid for any Bugges by night, nor for the arrow that flyeth by day." Psalms 91:5. Printed in 1561. The Treacle Bible: “Is there not treacle in Gilead?” Jeremiah 8:22. Printed in 1568. The Rosin Bible, printed in 1603, translates the same verse, “Is there no rosin in Gilead?" The Plaeemaker’s Bible: “Blessed are the placemakers." Mattnews:9. 1561-2. The Vinegar Bible: “The Parable of the Vinegar” appears instead of “The Parable of the Vineyard," as a chapterheading to Luke 20 in an Oxford edition published in 1717. Ear-to-Ear Bible: “Who hath eats to ear, “let him hear.’’ Matthew 13: Ttelffanding Fishes Bible:.“And it shall come to pass that the fishes will stand upon it.’’ Ezekiel 47:10. 1806. The Discharge Bible: “I discharge thee before God.” I, Timothy 5:21. 1806. The Wife-Hater Bible: “If any man

come to Me and hate not his father * * * yea, and his own wife also,” etc. Luke 14:36. 1810. Rebekah's Camels Bible: “And Rebekah arose and her camels.’’ Genesis 24:61. 1823. To-Remain Bible. "Persecuted him that was born after the spirit to remain, even so it is now." Galatians ▼.: 29. When this bible was in the press at Cambridge the proofreader, in doubt whether be should remove a comma, applied to his superior, who penciled on the margin these words, “To remain.” This reply was thus transferred to the body of the text. The Wicked Bible, printed in London in 1632, was so called because the negaation was omitted in the seventh commandment, thus placing an awful injunction on the faithful. The Printers’ Bible makes David pathetically complain that printers (instead of princes) have persecuted without a cause. The He and She Bible: From the respective readings of Ruth iii.; 15, one reading that “she went into the city,*'' the other has it “he went.” 1611. The Thumb .Bible, being one inch square and half an inch thick, was published in Aberdeen, 1670. The Murderers’ Bible, so called from an error in Jude, verse 16, the word “murderers" being used for “murmurers.” 1801. Wieiix’s Bible : The edition of this Bible contains a plate by John Wierix, representing the feast of Dives with Lazarus at his door. In the rich man’s banqueting room there is a dwarf playing with a monkey, to contribute to the merriment of the company, according to the custom amoDg the people of rank in the sixteenth century.