[kosta50]

We aren't talking about the deuterocanonical books. We are talking about the New Testament and your vague reference to the "apocrapha" and something that Luther and his followers "rejected". Could you please clarify what you precisely meant in post 8976?

I was referring to Anagignoskomena, the books found in the Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible, which the Potestants either reject or delegate to the section called "Apocrypha."

The term Deuterocanonical is Latin and corresponds to the books of the anagignoskomena. These were the books the Apostles used [because they used Septuagint as Scripture], and which the Church used as well. The eastern Church certainly did without interruption.

They are the same books that were rejected by the rabbis at Jamnia (100 AD) as "Christian." They were rejected the second time by Luther, 1,400 years later.

[HarleyD]

Then I don't understand you comment about the scriptures never equating Satan and the devil together. Revelation states:

Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

You can understand my confusion.