The notebook left by Martin Bowman has about a hundred pages, which is not a lot but definitely not a few. It is filled with things written by Martin Bowman himself.
Almost all of these contents are certain insights into the Bible, but these insights are not in the order of the Bible. It seems that when Martin Bauman wrote these insights, he did not consider any order, but wrote whatever he saw and thought of.
For example, the first page of the notebook does not contain the contents of the Pentateuch - Genesis, but the thoughts about a certain passage in the Book of Kings. And almost all the contents in this notebook are like this, without any order.
Since it was written with a pen, there would inevitably be some erasures, so there were signs of erasures on almost every page of the notebook, and these traces of erasures were quite interesting. Martin Baumann did not use horizontal or diagonal lines to cross out the wrong words, but used lines with arrows to cross out the wrong words.
And some of these lines with arrows point to the right, some to the left, some to the bottom, and some to the top. Of course, there are also lines without arrows, but they are very few.
At first, a group of people got together to figure it out for a long time, but they couldn't figure out why. The order was disrupted, and some wrong words were crossed out with arrows. These were obviously very abnormal. They also studied it for a long time, but in the end they could only come to the conclusion that Martin Bauman's thinking was different from that of normal people, so such puzzling phenomena occurred.
But at the same time, if they can't figure out these questions, Yang Jing and his team won't be able to figure out what secrets are hidden in this notebook.
Now, the boss actually said that there is a way to crack it, how can these people not be happy?
Yang Jing said to Chris, "Chris, bring over the Bibles that Martin Bauman donated to the church. We need to study this problem carefully."
Chris nodded, turned and walked out of the room. A moment later he came back with three Bibles of different styles and sizes.
These three Bibles are the "Old Testament of the Bible", the "New Testament of the Bible" and the "Complete New and Old Testaments" which consists of the "New Testament" and the "Old Testament".
Chris placed the three books on the coffee table and asked, "Boss, do you think the secrets in the notebook are related to these three Bibles? But we have thought about it for a long time and can't think of any connection between them."
Yang Jing smiled and nodded, saying, "That's right. If it weren't for what the helicopter pilot said today, I wouldn't have thought of the connection between the notebook and the Bible. Now, I have a rough guess, but it still needs to be proven."
As he spoke, Yang Jing picked up the notebook and began to flip through it from beginning to end. Finally, he said, "The insights recorded in this notebook are from both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Obviously, the Bible that the notebook refers to should be the New and Old Testaments."
Gege picked up the thickest book, the Old and New Testament, and gestured to Yang Jing, "Is this the one?"
"Yes, this is it. And have you noticed that this Bible doesn't seem to be the popular stuff printed by ordinary publishers? This Bible seems to be a special version with a very small print run. Look, the cover of this Bible has been rubbed a lot. It is obvious that Martin Bauman attached great importance to this Bible back then, and this Bible must have been with Martin Bauman for a long time."
"Boss, identifying antiques and cultural relics is your specialty. Can't you identify the origin of this Bible?" Clark said casually.
"Haha, yes, I have indeed identified it. If I am not mistaken, this Bible should be one of the Bibles printed by the then Catholic Archbishop in Germany, Berning, specifically for the top leaders of the **. The number is extremely rare, and only a few top leaders of the ** have this Bible."
"Wow, it's the Bible that the bishop printed specifically for the top leaders. It's really precious." Chris shook his head and said.
Yang Jing asked, "You have read this Bible quite a lot these days. Do you think this Bible is different from the Bible you usually read?"
Hearing Yang Jing's question, Clark said, "It is indeed a little different. This Bible is printed more exquisitely, and some of the illustrations and layouts inside are also different from the Bibles currently on the market."
"That's right!" Yang Jing snapped his fingers. "So, whether we can solve the secret hidden in the notebook today depends on this next move. Chris, tear down this Bible."
Hearing this order, Chris scratched his scalp in embarrassment and said, "Boss, I am a Catholic, I can't tear down this Bible..."
Yang Jing was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the other people, only to find that all of them shook their heads.
Yang Jing had no choice. Asking a Catholic to tear down the Bible was almost the same as asking his descendants to tear down the ancestral tablets in China.
Gege grabbed the Bible and said with a smile: "Yang Jing, please don't make it difficult for Chris and the others. I don't believe in Catholicism. Let me do this job."
Yang Jing nodded and began to look through the notebook in his hand.
It didn't take long for him to find two pages that recorded different contents, but these two pages were also the only ones in the entire notebook where the wrong letters were not crossed out with arrows.
That is to say, except for these two pages, all other pages used to cross out wrongly written letters use the line with an arrow.
The insights recorded on these two pages are passages from the Book of Haggai and the Gospel of John. Although Yang Jing does not understand German, he can understand some of the contents of the notebook by just reading it these days.
"Wife, take out these two pages." Yang Jing pointed to the contents recorded in the notebook. Luo Weisha stood next to Gege, and Bruce stood next to Yang Jing. Both of them were fluent in German, so although they could not tear down the Bible themselves, they could translate it.
The two pages were quickly removed, but Gege also revealed a piece of information at the same time - this Bible had been torn apart before, but it was restored very well, and non-professionals could not tell that the book had been torn apart.
Yang Jing turned his head and looked around the room, pointing to the largest wall and said, "Clear all the things on the wall. I need a large enough place to post these Bibles."
As long as they were not allowed to tear down the Bible, they would tear down anything! So several people rushed forward, and in a blink of an eye the entire wall was cleared.
Yang Jing personally took the two pages of the Bible and walked to the wall. Then he found a bottle of glue, applied a little glue on the two pages of the Bible, and directly pressed the two pages of the Bible in the center of the wall!
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