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Excerpt from A Short Analysis of the Old Testament: By Means of Headings to the Chapters, Especially Adapted to the Revised Version; A Conpanion in Reading, a Table of Contents, and a Skeleton Commentary (Classic Reprint)
One of the instructions to the Companies engaged from 1870 to 1884 upon the revision of the English Bible was to revise the headings of chapters and pages, paragraphs, italics, and punctuation but the first part of this instruction was never carried out. The Revisers' preface to the Old Testament says, One consequence of the arrangement in paragraphs has been the omission Of the headings of chapters, which for other and more important reasons it was thought advisable to abandon, as involving questions which belong rather to the province Of the commentator than to that of the translator.
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