We have indeed said enough to justify our plea, and here we might close the evidence, but we are tempted further to observe that the sense of Scripture is not only obscured in the authorized version by errors of translation, but there is almost an equal amount of mischief done to the sense by the present mode of distributing the subject-matter into chapter and verse; for which, as is well known, there is no valid authority, {24a} either as regards the Old or the New Testament. This fault it is the special object of the new Paragraph Bible lately published by the Religious Tract Society, to remedy. We confine ourselves to two illustrations. The 53rd chapter of Isaiah begins with a parenthesis, (‘Who hath believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?’) {24b} This, in our view, is a _soliloquy_ into which the prophet breaks forth in relief of his feelings, while contemplating the overpowering events that pass in review before him, coupled with the rejection of the message by the great body of his countrymen. {25a} These events had already begun their career at the 13th verse of the foregoing chapter, and they go steadily on through the remainder of that, and the whole of the following chapter, broken only by the ejaculation of the prophet, thus violently wrenched from its place, as the matter now stands. The other instance we adduce of the obscuration of the sense occasioned by the present faulty distribution of the letter-press, occurs Joshua v. and vi. It is an example of an analogous kind to that already given. It makes a parenthesis used simply in explanation of a series of instructions from the Lord to Joshua to vacate its place in the narrative, and actually stand at the commencement of a new chapter, in which the same series of instructions is still continued. See the “Edinburgh Review” for October last. {25b} We shall place the old and new arrangement in juxta-position, when the violence done to the sense, as the matter now stands, will be apparent at once. _Old Arrangement_. _New Arrangement_. Joshua v. 15. And the captain of the Lord’s And the captain of the Lord’s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy host said unto Joshua, “_Loose shoe from off thy foot; for the thy shoe from off thy foot_, _for place where thou standest _is_ the place where thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so. holy_.” And Joshua did so. Ch. vi. Now Jericho was straitly (Now Jericho was straitly shut shut up, because of the children up, because of the children of of Israel: none went out, and Israel; none went out, and none none came in. came in). And the Lord said unto Joshua, “_See_, _I have given 2. And the Lord said unto into thy hand Jericho_,” &c. Joshua, See, I have given into thy hand Jericho, &c.