My friend..was Jerome a Heretic? He did not believe that the apocrypha was inspired text, he did not place it with the inspired texts of the Jewish OT ..nor did the Jews.. Those books were not added to the OT text until Trent
Christ did indeed build His church.. but that church in the NT was not the Roman Catholic church.. that church was built on the cornerstone of Christ and His work..
Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone];
1Pe 2:4 ¶ To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious,
1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1Pe 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
1Pe 2:7 Unto you therefore which believe [he is] precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
1Pe 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed
My friend..was Jerome a Heretic? He did not believe that the apocrypha was inspired text, he did not place it with the inspired texts of the Jewish OT ..nor did the Jews.. Those books were not added to the OT text until Trent
>>Where do you get your spurious information that the “apocryphya” was not added until Trent, considering they were ruled as part of the Bible by numerous local councils in antiquity? What Trent did was settle the question certain theologians had about whether they were on the same level as the proto-canonical OT.
Also how do you explain the fact that the separated Eastern Churches, who are not in union with Rome consider them scriptural?
The following link is to a Coptic Orthodox perspective. THEY DO NOT ACCEPT THE COUNCIL OF TRENT!!!
http://st-takla.org/pub_Deuterocanon/Deuterocanon-Apocrypha_El-Asfar_El-Kanoneya_El-Tanya__0-index.html
The canon had not been settled as of St. Jerome’s time.
Nontheless, St. Jerome cited from the Septuagint canon in other works.
I’ll add that Revelation, Hebrews, and Jude were questioned by numerous Church fathers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilegomena#Reformation
The lectionary of the Byzantine Church evidences this because it is so old that it predates the settling of the debate over whether or not Revelation was inspired and lacks readings from Revelation.
Not to mention, the Syriac Peshitta excluded Revelation until the 5th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshitta
Maybe you Evangelicals ought to discard Revelation from your Bibles.