Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1913 — LOST BIBLE VERSES FOUND [ARTICLE]

LOST BIBLE VERSES FOUND

Manuscripts Belonging to New Testament Discovered in Egypt Have Additions to Bt. Mark. * London, England.—Some long missing verses of the new testament are included in the manuscripts of the gospels discovered in Egypt six years ago and purchased by Charles L. Freer of Detroit, Mich., according to a study made of the Freer manuscripts by the Timeß. A facsimile of the manuscripts has been presented to the British museum by the University of Michigan, to which Mr. Freer assigned the task of publication, and, according to the Times study, there have been found in the gospel of St Mark several verses which occur in no other known manuscript of the new testament although they were known to St Jerome, who quotes part of them. 11l I In the Freer manuscript, after the passage in which it is said that Jesus upbraided his disciples for their unbelief 9 the text continues as follows: “And they excused themselves, saying that this age of lawlessness and unbelief is under Satan, who, through the agency of unclean spirits, suffers not the true power of God to be apprehended. “For the cause, said they unto Christ, Reveal now at once thy righteousness. “And Christ said unto them, the limit- of the years of the powers of Satan is (not) fulfilled, but it draweth near (the text here as elsewhere is corrupt). “For the sake of those that have sinned was 1 given up unto death, that they may return unto the truth and sin no more, but may inherit the spiritual and incorruptible glory of righteousness in heaven." A large number of variations in other portions of the new testament are also pointed out by the Times in the Freer manuscripts.