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ODDITIES OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE.

Despite the veneration in which it has been held by mankind for the last
nineteen hundred years, the Bible has fared almost as badly at the hands
of translators and printers as books of far less importance. Errors made
in the course of translating and printing have caused various nicknames to
be applied to the editions. Some of the more extraordinary of these
editions were described in a recently published catalogue as follows:

=The Gutenberg Bible= (1450)--The earliest book known. Printed from
movable metal types, is the Latin Bible issued by Gutenberg, at Mayence.

=The Bug Bible= (1551)--Was so called from its rendering of the Psalms
xci:5: "Afraid of bugs by night." Our present version reads: "Terror by
night."

=The Breeches Bible=--The Geneva version is that popularly known as the
Breeches Bible, from its rendering of Genesis iii:7: "Making themselves
breeches out of fig-leaves." This translation of the Scriptures--the
result of the labors of the English exiles at Geneva--was the English
family Bible during the reign of Queen Elizabeth and till supplanted by
the present authorized version of King James I.

=The Place-Makers' Bible= (1562)--From a remarkable typographical error
which occurs in Matthew v:9: "Blessed are the place-makers," instead of
"peace-makers."

=The Treacle Bible= (1568)--From its rendering of Jeremiah viii:22: "Is
there no treacle [instead of balm] in Gilead?"

=The Rosin Bible= (1609)--From the same text, but translated "rosin."

=The Thumb Bible= (1670)--Being one inch square and half an inch thick;
was published at Aberdeen.

=The Vinegar Bible= (1717)--So named from the head-line of the twentieth
chapter of Luke, which reads: "The Parable of the Vinegar," instead of the
"vineyard."

=The Printers' Bible=--We are told by Cotton Mather that in a Bible
printed prior to 1702 a blundering typographer made King David exclaim: