Page 16 - Yahwehs Book

Three degrees of comparison complete our knowledge of qualities.

The simplest proposition requires three things to complete it; viz., the subject, the predicate, and the
copula.

Three propositions are necessary to complete the simplest form of argument--the major premiss, the
minor, and the conclusion.

Three kingdoms embrace our ideas of matter--mineral, vegetable, and animal.

When we turn to the Scriptures, this completion becomes Divine, and marks Divine completeness
or perfection.

Three is the first of four perfect numbers (see p. 23).

Three denotes divine perfection;
Seven denotes spiritual perfection;
Ten denotes ordinal perfection; and
Twelve denotes governmental perfection.

Hence the number three points us to what is real, essential, perfect, substantial, complete, and
Divine.
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The Bible is a divine book. God is the author of the Scriptures. It is difficult to imagine a perfect, all-
wise and all-powerful God delivering to mankind anything that was not perfect and complete. The
Jews traditionally numbered the divine writings as 22 in total, while the Christian Bible contains 66
books (3 times 22).

Though the ancient Jews had reasons to defend their sacred books as 22 in total, the Christian Bible
contains the same material divided into 39 books. Some Christians have remarked on the symmetry
found in the Christian divisions of the Old Testament.

We see once more the stamp of the number three. There are 17 books of history, 5 books of wisdom,
and 17 books of prophecy. Whether one embraces the Christian divisions of the writings of the Old
Testament, or the Hebrew divisions of the Tanakh, it is a book of divine perfection.