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To: redgolum
There was no official decision on the Apocrypha until the council of Trent.

That's not quite true. The local councils (Hippo and Rome, I believe) around AD 400 which finalized the NT canon also included the deuterocanonical books. (Some Protestant apologists have an obscure argument which alleges that they didn't define exactly the same canon as Trent, but that's a matter for hair-pulling dispute, IMO. It's beyond dispute that their OT canon was closer to Trent's than not.)

Trent was the first time the canon was defined by an ecumenical council, and thus probably the first time it was defined infallibly.

35 posted on 11/19/2004 11:02:02 AM PST by Campion
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To: Campion
That was my point. There were a number of councils that had The Shepard of Hermes in the canon, and a few that liked to put third and fourth Maccabees in also. I was stating that at the time of the Reformation, Rome had not come out and closed the OT canon yet.
41 posted on 11/19/2004 11:06:07 AM PST by redgolum (Molon labe)
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