Here's something interesting
I'm listening to an Inspector Morse audio book on You Tube. He and Lewis are discussing the case and Lewis mentions coincidence. Morse says ...coincidence is that the 46th word from the beginning and the 46th word from the end of the 46th psalm in the traditional bible spell Shakespeare (paraphrasing).
I had my family Bible out so I looked and counted. By golly, they do! I Googled it and here is a nice chunk of detail from Wikipedia:
Shakespeare's alleged involvement (in the translation of the King James bible)
For several decades, some theorists have suggested that William Shakespeare placed his mark on the translated text of Psalm 46 that appears in the King James Bible, although many scholars view this as unlikely, stating that the translations were probably agreed upon by a committee of scholars.[15]
On the other hand, Shakespeare was in King James' service during the preparation of the King James Bible, and was generally considered to be 46 years old in 1611 when the translation was completed. There are a few extant examples of Shakespeare's actual signature, and as was customary at the time, with spelling being somewhat lax in those pre-standardized days, on at least one occasion he signed it 'Shakspeare', which divides into four and six letters, thus '46'. The 46th word from the beginning of Psalm 46 is "shake" and the 46th word from the end (omitting the liturgical mark "Selah"
is "spear" ("speare" in the original spelling).[16][17]
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