Who was put to death by a plague? What's the shortest verse? 446 pages of Bible prize questions, enigmas and curiosities that Victorian Sunday schools competed over.

First Things

2 pages in this part of Curiosities of the Bible.

First Things (Where is the first mention)

49. Where is the first mention of printing in the Bible? 50 What is the first recorded use of current money? 51. What was the text of our…

First Things (St Peter By the selection)

64. St. Peter. By the selection of a particular passage and the explanation thereof.

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