The tidy story also does not survive the arithmetic. The Protestant Bible has 1,189 chapters, whose true midpoint is the 595th, and depending on how one counts, that is Psalm 117 rather than 118; the popular version quietly adjusts the tally to land on the verse it wants. Psalm 117 being the shortest chapter and Psalm 119 the longest is true, but their flanking a supposed exact centre is a coincidence dressed up as design. The example is a useful one: it shows how a chain of individually near-true statements can be assembled into a false conclusion, and why claims of hidden numerical structure in scripture repay checking rather than repetition.
A hundred and eighteen factors as 2 x 59 and carries 4 divisors in all. Summing its proper divisors gives only 62, short of the number itself, which places it among the deficient numbers in the same classical scheme.
The genuine Pythagorean number philosophy that this modern chart borrows its name from left no writings of its own: Pythagoras and his early followers taught only by mouth, and what survives of their number theory comes instead through Nicomachus of Gerasa, whose Introduction to Arithmetic of the first century CE became the standard authority for a thousand years, and through Iamblichus, who drew on Nicomachus two centuries later; neither wrote anything resembling a name-and-birthdate numerology.