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NASB | Revelation 22:18 ¶ I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 22:18 ¶ I testify and warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book [its predictions, consolations, and admonitions]: if anyone adds [anything] to them, God will add to him the plagues (afflictions, calamities) which are written in this book; [Deut 4:2] |
Bible Question:
Scripture is laid out ion verses. This was done by someone after the Bible was complete. Why aren't the verses laid out in the incremental units of language called sentences. Some are complete sentences some are not. How can we get the meaning of a scripture without looking at the whole sentence that contains it. Is there a reason that scripture is broken up the way it is or was it abritrarily done? In a recent post Philip. 2:6-8 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: [7] But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: [8] And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. [KJV] But the sentence begins with verse 5 . .. .Philip. 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: [KJV] When this portion of the writers thought is included, doesn't it affect the meaning of the whole? I was just wondering why the bible is broken down in the way it is instead of sentences. Webster Dictionary says of a sentence. 4 a : a word, clause, or phrase or a group of clauses or phrases forming a syntactic unit which expresses an assertion, a question, a command, a wish, an exclamation, or the performance of an action, that in writing usually begins with a capital letter and concludes with appropriate end punctuation, and that in speaking is distinguished by characteristic patterns of stress, pitch, and pauses b : a mathematical or logical statement (as an equation or a proposition) in words or symbols. So why not split the Bible up into complete thoughts instead of partial thoughts? Anybody know why? |
Bible Answer: Stephen Langton divided the Bible into chapters in 1227 ... Robert Stephanus divided the verses for his Greek New Testament in 1551. You are correct ... one may read a verse, or even a chapter and miss the context. Reading the whole book may have been the author's inention ... with the expection of Psalms, which are a collection ....read the entire Psalm. The chapter and verse divisions, while they cause some problem, they are are convenient for reference and quotation purposes. Source: http://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/nbi/273.html |