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To: annalex

Luther didn't throw any canonical books out. The Roman Catholic church added them to the Canon at Trent. "As the Church reads the books of Judith and Tobit and Maccabees but does not receive them among the canonical Scriptures, so also it reads Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus for the edification of the people, not for the authoritative confirmation of doctrine."
Jerome
Jerome's preface to the books of Solomon


3,622 posted on 01/03/2007 8:32:55 AM PST by Blogger
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To: Blogger
The Roman Catholic church added [the deuterocanonical books] to the Canon at Trent

This is not correct. The canon with the deuterocanonical books in it was affirmed at the Ecumenical (in the Catholic sense) Council of Trent because at that point it was challenged by the Reformers. Prior to that, and since at least the local councils at Hippo and Carthage in late 4th-early 5th century, the canon contained the deuterocanonical books. No bible was copied or printed without them prior to the Protestant truncated bibles; the deuterocanonical books remain on the canon in the Orthodox Churches even though they were not subject to Trent.

3,629 posted on 01/03/2007 9:19:19 AM PST by annalex
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