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| | Theology Today - Vol 37, No. 3 - October 1980 - CRITICSCORNER - The "Wicked" Bibles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Eight thousand copies of one Bible were printed and bound in Ireland in 1716 before it was discovered that the command, in John, to "sin no more," had come out as "sin on more," a directive with somewhat more appeal to chronic sinners. |
 | | Or "The Standing Fishes Bible" of 1806, which tells us, in Ezekiel, "And it shall come to pass that the fishes shall stand upon it." As much as one hates to dispel that lively image of our finny friends standing upright on their tails, it must be disclosed that the right word is fishers. |
 | | There are, for example, two "Bug Bibles." Miles Coverdale's Bible of 1535 has earned that creepy sobriquet; and so has the Bible printed in Antwerp two years later as the translation of a certain Thomas Matthews, which was probably a pen name for one John Rogers. |
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