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.
St. Jerome distinguished between canonical books and ecclesiastical books. The latter he judged were circulated by the Church as good spiritual reading but were not recognized as authoritative Scripture. The situation remained unclear in the ensuing centuries...For example, John of Damascus, Gregory the Great, Walafrid, Nicolas of Lyra and Tostado continued to doubt the canonicity of the deuterocanonical books. According to Catholic doctrine, the proximate criterion of the biblical canon is the infallible decision of the Church. This decision was not given until rather late in the history of the Chruch at the Council of Trent. The Council of Trent definitively settled the matter of the Old Testament Canon. That this had not been done previously is apparent from the uncertainty that persisted up to the time of Trent (The New Catholic Encyclopedia, The Canon).
St. Jerome distinguished between canonical books and ecclesiastical books. The latter he judged were circulated by the Church as good spiritual reading but were not recognized as authoritative Scripture. The situation remained unclear in the ensuing centuries...For example, John of Damascus, Gregory the Great, Walafrid, Nicolas of Lyra and Tostado continued to doubt the canonicity of the deuterocanonical books. According to Catholic doctrine, the proximate criterion of the biblical canon is the infallible decision of the Church. This decision was not given until rather late in the history of the Chruch at the Council of Trent. The Council of Trent definitively settled the matter of the Old Testament Canon. That this had not been done previously is apparent from the uncertainty that persisted up to the time of Trent (The New Catholic Encyclopedia, The Canon).