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In the following year was published at Oxford the well-known Vinegar Bible, which takes its name from a blunder in the running title of the twentieth chapter of St. Luke's Gospel, where it reads "The parable of the vinegar," instead of "The parable of the vineyard."
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
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