[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[RedDogzRule]

Thank you for posting this!

I know that back when I was Lutheran I discovered that the LCMS used to include the Apocrypha their Bibles, when the Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis still printed the Bibles in German. When they switched to just English, the “extra” books were dropped. I NEVER heard anything mentioned about them in church growing up and they were never used in liturgy. Thank God I found the Orthodox Church and now see how we’ve impoverished our faith tradition in the West by being ignorant of these scriptures.

[RedDogzRule]

BTW, your links to the Orthodox Study Bible don’t seem to be working. You can find it at Conciliar Press.

http://www.conciliarpress.com/books/orthodox-study-bible

[Persevero]

The fact that Jesus did not quote from any of the Apocrypha, but did quote from all the other OT books (except Song of Solomon) is one reason that I don’t accept the Apocrypha as inspired.

[count-your-change]

The apocrypha was never part of the Inspired Scriptures so no one “took it out”.

[allmendream]

I hear the cliff notes version was a really good seller./s

[Lurking Libertarian]

That is because your Old Testament was translated out of Hebrew, but the New Testament writers quote the Septuagint.

Is this true? When the NT quotes the Hebrew Bible, is the Greek used in the NT identical to the Septuagint, or did they translate directly from the Hebrew?

[lightman]

The Canticle "All You Works of the Lord, bless the Lord" Benedicite, omnia opera Domini taken from the additions to the Book of Daniel in the Apocrypha is fixed piece of the Lutheran Easter Vigil liturgy.

It is used between the liturgy of Readings and the liturgy of Holy Baptism/Renewal of Baptismal Promises--the same place as the Litany of the Saints in the Roman rite.

[Salvation]

Great post. Thanks.

[DollyCali]

Interesting info BTTT

[RnMomof7]

Josephus a well known historical Jewish historian says this " (at about 100 AD) "It is true our history has been written since Artaxerxes very particularly but has not been esteemed of the like authority with the former by our forefathers, because there has not been an exact succession of the prophets since that time."

The apocrypha itself says there was no prophet in the land at the time of its writings.. All scripture is written by a prophet (one who speaks for God ).. So the apocrypha is not inspired scripture..it is as jerome placed it as good spiritual reading but no infallible.