Today's Topics:
blessed are the cheesemakers
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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 09:23:53 -0400
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9204241323.AA08143@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: blessed are the cheesemakers
from comp.risks:
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 92 20:46:30 -0700
>From: Cliff Stoll <stoll@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Typos? They've been around for centuries! (Re: Ellison, RISKS-13.42)
Well, you sure don't need a computer to make typos.
1562 - Geneva bible Matt. v, 9 reads:
"Blessed are the placemakers: for they shall be called the children
of God." ^^^^^^^^^^^ (oughta be peacemakers)
1653 - Cambridge printer screws up I Cor. vi, 9:
"know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit the Kingdom of God?
1691 - Barker & Lewis in London printed a bible with the seventh commandment,
"Thou shalt commit adultery."
(they were fined 300 pounds and went out of business)
1702 - London firm prints bible with Psalms cxix, 161:
"Printers have persecuted me" (should be "Princes..."
1716 - First bible printed in Ireland has John v, 14 as:
"sin on more" (instead of sin no more)
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