One of the rarest books in ""the world is a Gutenberg Bible, which was recently purchased at auction for two million dollars.
The two volume, five-hundred-year-old Bible is one of one-hundred-and-eighty-five copies printed by John Gutenberg between 1450 and 1456.
It had been previously bought at auction for fifteen thousand dollars in 1898.
In 1926 a Gutenberg Bible sold for one-hundred-and-six thousand dollars.
Martin Breslauer, representing the State Museum of Baden Wurttemburg in Stuttgart, who bought the Bible in April 1978, stated that he was "determined" to get the complete copy of the Gutenburg "at any price" and that he was "ready to go higher than two million dollars if necessary."
Only twenty-one of the forty-eight existing copies are complete with all their pages. Gutenburg Bibles were the first books to be printed with moveable type.
Thousands will flock to view the rare old Bible in Stuttgart; but millions have its precious message in their hearts right now. Neither would they part with the truth, the divine light and peace that the Word of God has brought them― not for the world and all its wealth combined.
"Reader, if thou wouldst know the Divinity of the Bible, experimentally taste and feed upon it. The best defense of the Bible is the Bible itself. The best commentary on the Bible is the Bible itself. Diamonds alone cut diamonds!'