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Chapter: The several books of the Old and New Testaments were from an early
time divided into chapters. The Pentateuch was divided by the ancient
Hebrews into 54 parshioth or sections, one of which was read in
the synagogue every Sabbath day
(Acts 13:15) These sections were
afterwards divided into 669 sidrim or orders of unequal length.
The Prophets were divided in somewhat the same manner into
haphtaroth or passages. In the early Latin and Greek versions of
the Bible, similar divisions of the several books were made. The New
Testament books were also divided into portions of various lengths
under different names, such as titles and heads or chapters. In
modern times this ancient example was imitated, and many attempts of
the kind were made before the existing division into chapters was
fixed. The Latin Bible published by Cardinal Hugo of St. Cher in A.D.
1240 is generally regarded as the first Bible that was divided into
our present chapters, although it appears that some of the chapters
were fixed as early as A.D. 1059 This division into chapters came
gradually to be adopted in the published editions of the Hebrew, with
some few variations, and of the Greek Scriptures, and hence of other
versions.
