Revelation 22:3

clayton stirling bartholomew c.s.bartholomew at worldnet.att.net
Sat Mar 27 21:20:18 EST 1999


I wrote:

> The chapter division at Revelation 22 is infelicitous, perhaps
> Stephanous was getting tired by this point being almost at the end of
> his labors or perhaps his horse stepped into a gopher hole. Actually I
> am not sure Stephanous provided us with this chapter division so the
> blame me be misdirected.

A polite and friendly Scholar corrected me off list saying:

>>>>>>
Stephanus (Robert Estienne) provided us with the *verse* divisions of
biblical books.
The "chapterization" that is standard comes from Stevan (Stephen)
Langton, archbishop
of Canterbury. d. 1228.
>>>>>>>

Good to have this point cleared up.

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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
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