{19} A Hebraism lurks here. So, “Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not ANY of his benefits;” and not “_all_ his benefits,” as our translation has it. So again, “And God gave Cain a mark, lest ANY finding him should kill him,” where the _same_ word is rightly rendered. Ps. ciii. 2; Gen. iv. 15. {24a} Various divisions, both of the Old and New Testaments, were in use from the earliest period, but the present divisions into Chapters and Verses are ascribed, the former, with some hesitation, to Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, about the middle of the thirteenth century; the latter to Robert Stephens, a Frenchmen, about the middle of the sixteenth century. See art. Scripture in Kitto’s Biblical Cyclopædia. {24b} In an elaborate translation of the whole of this prophecy, in the Hebrew Grammar recently published by Messrs. Mason and Bernard, the authors conceive the opening passage, “_Who hath believed our report_,” &c., to express the awe and wonder of the kings mentioned in the previous chapter at the events they are supposed to witness, and accordingly they render it, “_Who hath believed our hearing_” &c., the tidings, that is, that have reached us, the kings aforesaid. But, with all due respect for the translation generally, we are unable to accept this view of the passage before us, conceiving it to be far-fetched, and opposed to the purpose for which, in so many words, it is quoted in the New Testament. See John xii. 37; Rom. x. 16. {25a} In like manner Jacob, in the course of predicting the future fortunes of his sons, exclaims parenthetically, “I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.” Gen. xlix. 18. {25b} This article has since been republished in a separate form, under the title of the “Present State of the English Bible,” by the Rev. William Harness, A.M. It will well repay repeated perusal by all those who are interested in this pre-eminently interesting question.