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Topic:
Thoughts And Things Of The Bible -- Chapter
The several books of the Old and New Testaments were from an early
time divided into chapters. The Pentateuch was divided by the ancient
Hebrews into 54 parshioth or sections, one of which was read in the
synagogue every Sabbath day (Acts. 13:15). These sections were
afterwards divided into 669 sidrim or orders of unequal length. The
Prophets were divided in somewhat the same manner into haphtaroth or
passages. In the early Latin and Greek versions of the Bible, similar
divisions of the several books were made. The New Testament books were
also divided into portions of various lengths under different names,
such as titles and heads or chapters. In modern times this ancient
example was imitated, and many attempts of the kind were made before the
existing division into chapters was fixed. The Latin Bible published by
Cardinal Hugo of St. Cher in A.D. 1240 is generally regarded as the
first Bible that was divided into our present chapters, although it
appears that some of the chapters were fixed as early as A.D. 1059. This
division into chapters came gradually to be adopted in the published
editions of the Hebrew, with some few variations, and of the Greek
Scriptures, and hence of other versions.
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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