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Excerpt from Tercentenary of the Authorised Version of the English Bible: Catalogue of Manuscripts, Lithographs, and Printed Copies of the Scriptures, Exhibited to Illustrate the Means by Which the Bible Has Been Transmitted
Thus to the Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures, already enlarged by the Apocrypha, and in this form called by the Christians the Old Testament, there was added a correspond ing series of Christian scriptures in Greek, known as the New Testament. The double series was called The little books, in Greek, Biblia; and this word has given us by a slight alteration our familiar title, Bible. 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.
