A sermon for the Season of Pentecost
There has long been a rumor that Psalm 46 contains a secret code, and it goes like this: Using the King James Version of this Psalm, when you count 46 words in, you come to the word “shake.” (It’s toward the end of the third verse.) If you then start at the end of the Psalm and count 46 words in, you come to the word “spear.” When you combine these two words, you have “Shakespeare.” And, as a matter of fact, in 1611 when the King James Version of the Bible was published, Shakespeare was 46 years old. He had just moved back to Stratford. He would have been 46 through the end of April. April 23rd was his birthday.
