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Center of the Bible
by Sterling D. Allan; Manti, Utah; April 22, 2001
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 | 1189 Baal Zephon and the 1189-Chapter Bible - The 1189th word of the Old Testament Hebrew dictionary is the Name Baal-Typhon -- Lord of winter. Ramifications for the purpose of the 1189-chapter Bible. |
| Psalm 118 is arranged in a chiasm -- discovered April 6, 1993 |
| Alphabetics insights on Psalms 118 being the middle chapter in the 1189-chapter Bible |
| Alphabetics on "Middle and Messiah" -- half-way points in the Old and New Testament lexicons |
Errata: The 594.5th chapter is Psalms 116(.5)Feb. 17, 2002
There are 1189 chapters in the bible. 1189 divided by 2 is 594.5 I have a Bible in which each chapter is numbered (by the printer) so it is very easy to verify this. Thanks for drawing my attention to it.
Whoever came up with this must have counted manually and missed a chapter or something. It is a cute mistake. The question is if this discounts the conclusions drawn. I do not believe it does. If anything, it argues for one of the main methods in "Alphabetics" which is not just looking up a word and the numbers associated with it, but looking at the words before and after it. The one chapter of the Bible that lists the Hebrew Alphabet as part of the text, happens to be 2.5 chapters away from the center of the Bible. This illustrates both the idea of the alphabet being very important and the idea of the significance of vicinity. 25 is the number of David (a play on 2.5).April 23, 2002
An example of this 'vicinity' principle is illustrated in the following set of 'coincidences.'
1. The Greek word for "grace" is found on page 666 of Thayer's New Testament lexicon (dictionary of NT words). That is about as opposite as one could get from the general notion of 666.
2. On the page prior (not right on page 666, but one page removed) is the definition for "mark" which is used in Revelation 13:16,17 that talks about the mark of the beast being 666. That is about as close a match that could be found, and yet it is on page 665, not 666.
3. The Greek word for 666 (word number 5516 according to James Strong's numbering, which is the most ubiquitous standard) is found on page 669 of Thayer's, just three pages after page 666.
And, as a synchronous 'vicinity' coincidence, I am adding this comment precisely one year and one day after originally posting this page. My attention was brought to the page this evening when I was viewing my site statistics and saw that snopes2.com snidely cites this page as an example of people who acknowledge that Psalm 118 is not the center of the Bible and yet continue to consider the find significant. A "direct hit" so far as an anniversary coincidence, would have been for this to have happened yesterday. But an even more "direct hit" so far as ratifying the phenomenon of "vicinity" significance is for me to do this year and one day later. Alphabetics strikes again.
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