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To: Natural Law

True or false: Jerome objected to including the Apocrypha but did it anyway?


184 posted on 04/04/2013 8:26:31 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins
"True or false: Jerome objected to including the Apocrypha but did it anyway?"

False. Please read St. Jerome's Against Rufinus in which he states:

"What sin have I committed if I followed the judgment of the churches? But he who brings charges against me for relating the objections that the Hebrews are wont to raise against the Story of Susanna, the Song of the Three Children, and the story of Bel and the Dragon, which are not found in the Hebrew volume, proves that he is just a foolish sycophant. For I was not relating my own personal views, but rather the remarks that they [the Jews] are wont to make against us."

186 posted on 04/04/2013 9:08:33 AM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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