unknown4

I read that this Psalm is the middle chapter of the Bible and is also the shortest. This applies to a Protestant version. My question is, was this designed or merely a coincidence? Supposedly some person by the name of Langton in the 13th century created chapter divisions for the Vulgate, but doesn't the Vulgate include the Apocrypha? Do you think Langton designed the chapter divisions intentionally to show some correlation for a Protestant version of the Bible?

Yes, this could just be a "coincidence", but I wonder if anyone's heard about this before, and if there's a good explanation outside of simply saying it's a "coincidence". Thanks.

Chris Weimer

It's merely coincidence.

Gullwind

A fundy friend of mine sent me an e-mail about this once. This e-mail claimed that Psalm 117 is the shortest chapter inthe bible (true), and that Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the bible (also true), and that Psalm 118 was the middle chapter, and that the middle verse of the bible was Psalm 118:8, which says "It is better to put your trust in the Lord rather than in man" (more or less). What staggering proof that God was behind the bible, right?

I was curious about this, so I went through and added up all the chapters and verses in the bible. ( I have a bible CD-ROM so it wasn't nearly as time-comsuming as it sounds).

I found out that the e-mail was almost completely wrong. It was right about the shortest and longest verses, but Psalm 117 is actually the middle chapter, and if you add up the verse total, the middle verses are actually Psalms 103:2-3 (its an even number, so there is no actual "middle verse."

When I pointed this out to my friend the next day, he tried to claim he just sent me the e-mail because of the pretty pictures. :huh:

Chris Weimer

:rolling:

WinAce

Won't this differ between versions, also? I seem to recall the KJV has a few more (dubious verses) than modern translations.

Vinnie

Not to mention textual corruptions....

unknown4

I don't think the verses really matter, because I think the chapter numbers remain the same. If anyone has more info, I'd like to see it. Thanks.

Chris Weimer

Not to mention that the originals didn't even have chapter/verse division. And no lower case letters, punctuation, etc...

rationalOne

Sounds like Bible-Code style silliness.

unknown4

Ah, but see, this shows that God intended to eventually reveal the truth about the Protestant Bible.. that latter on mankind would see that the middle chapter is the same as the shortest.

Or so one can say.