A quick thought on quoting the Bible

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 I had wanted to do a much more drawn out study of this topic but as I was researching another topic, well, i just wanted to get this off my chest. By the way, for context, i was researching false teachers, heretics, and “Christian” cults. so you can see why i got a little frustrated. 

Anyways, the bible was not always written with verses/chapters. Each book originally was written as one writing all the way through. It wasn’t until Jerome was writing the vulgate in the 4th century a.d. that he originally started putting the writings into pericopes. that in turn eventually over the centuries led to the standard we use today of modern verses and chapters.

So be weary anytime, anyone says in referencing quotes from New Testament to old something along the lines of, “its odd that they would only quote a portion of that verse from the Old Testament and not the whole verse.” No its not, they, whether it was Jesus, or a disciple quoted the portion of the Bible that they wanted to reference. They didn’t say the whole “verse” because verses didn’t exist yet! 

Ok i am off my soapbox, eventually, i will get around to a much more in depth study of the history of the pericopes, verses, books, chapters, etc…

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