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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: The original writings were, I assume, in the form of sentences. That is the way thoughts are expressed in every language. There is a question why the editors did not decide to assign one verse to each sentence. Some sentences are broken up into verses. John 13:2,3,4 are one sentence. Granted the sentence is long, but so is Ester 8;9, and it is left as one verse. The chapter divisions are also curious as there are very long ones (John 6) and very short ones (Malachi 4). Even more interesting is the fact that a chapter can end with a comma (Acts 21). That can be somewhat disconcerting, The idea of paragraphs seems to be a good one, but that makes it more difficult to locate the verse numbers. Bibles that have verses looking like paragraphs usually add a "¶" to indicate paragrahs transitions. We should be thankful for the people who do these things to help us. They are monumental tasks and I suppose the quirks may be due to phenomena such as fatigue and loss of concentration. If we can live with the locations of the letter keys on a QWERTY keyboard, I suppose we can live with quirky subdivisions of words. We should be aware that these divisions are not like the original writings especially in the fact that they were not inspired. The problem with quoting verses is that we may think that each one is a complete thought. It is not. Someone has pointed out that Philippians 2:5-8 is one sentence, and one thought. How many of us read read the passage and dote upon the fact that Jesus thought that way (humbly) and miss the point that we should do the same. That was the intent of the author, and the author, lest we forget, is the Holy Spirit. The original writings were, I assume, in sentences, and we would do well to read our Bibles that way. |