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[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Charles Matthews wrote:
> The use of transclusion by section on Wikisource would make it 
> technically simple to bring the existing verses (or chapters) together 
> on pages for parallel reading. Of course it would be a lot of work ... 
> and I suppose it should be done chapter-wise. (Verses are at best a 
> convenience - chapter divisions have I think a wider acceptance, and are 
> at least historically older.)
>   

The really glaring exception to the chapter divisions tradition
being hard and fast fixed is Book of John. In that case there
is a scholarly argument that not only are the chapters not
unambiguously divided, but that there is plausible evidence
that the order of textual passages has been re-arranged.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen