Excerpt from The Hebrew Student, Vol. 2: A Monthly Journal in the Interests of Old Testament Literature and Interpretation; September, 1882 June, 1883 The notes at the close of the books show the same thing. That at the end of the book of Isaiah says, for example, that the number of the verses of Isaiah is 1295, that their mnemonic sign is the word hewn in. Ezek. And that the middle verse is Is. This is evidently a mechanical device of securing accuracy in the transmission of the text. It shows that the idea of mechanical accuracy was not foreign to the minds of the men who made these notes on the Old Testament books. If we were now undertaking to prove that they succeeded in transmitting a perfectly accurate text, we should have to deal with the fact that the number of verses now in the Isaiah is 1291 instead of 1295, while the middle verse still is the one designated in the note. But however any one may explain the discrepancy, it does not change the demonstration of the fact that the men through whom this text came had clearly in mind the notion that the transmission of a text, ' as distinguished from the transmission of its meaning, was a thing so important that it was neces sary to guard it with all possible devices for testing its accuracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.