"FREAK" BIBLE EDITIONS.
MISTAKES WORTH MONEY. Several examples of "freak" editions of the Bible recently came under the auctioneer's hammer m London. One of the most 1 remarkable is known - as the "Bug Bible!" In this the context of the ,91st Psalm rims: "Thou shalt not be afrayde; for eny bugges by night"— "buggesj" in. medieval times, irieani-«sf nightmares and other terrors. Another curious example in the collection is the. {"Treacle* Bible," in which the passage, Jeremiah via: 22, reads: "There is no more triacle at Gylead." The "Murderers' Bible" takes its title f- from an,error in the translation of Jude, verse xva, which in the Authorised Version runs :':■ 'These are murmerers, compiaincrs"; whilo .» curious mis-print in the Beatitudes. "Blessed are the placemakers," gave,rise to one set of Bibles being known as the * "Place-makers" Edition. Altogether there are no fewer than fen "freak" editions of the great Book, some of them of considerable value., ■ ■ ;. •■.■■ ; ■ .■;;:'...
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18771, 26 July 1924, Page 4 (Supplement)
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154"FREAK" BIBLE EDITIONS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18771, 26 July 1924, Page 4 (Supplement)
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