“That’s not what...”
That’s not what the translators and scholars of the scriptures say, going back thousands of years, and therefore I’ll side with them.
If you don’t like it. Why not go get some fish guts and roast them to ward off evil Spirits, like Tobit teaches? And then maybe tell some lies about your identity, like the “Angel of the Lord” does in Tobit? Or maybe tell us how Nebuchadnezzer actually ruled in Nineveh instead of Babylon, like what Baruch teaches?
“To which of these three do you submit?”
Gregory had good ideas! The “Pope” following Gregory failed to heed his advice and took upon himself the title of “Universal Bishop,” which Gregory called a desire of anti-Christ. Every Bishop of Rome since then has harped worldly power over the spiritual power that is offered to everyone who believes in Christ. IOW, they possess the spirit of anti-Christ which desires to put men in front of God.
You should repent and submit to the teaching authority of Gregory.
I ask again.
You say the Church is divided equally between the Patriarchs of Rome, Alexandria and Antioch.
To which of these three do you submit?
“That’s not what the translators and scholars of the scriptures.”
Unfortunately for you - Sinaiticus and Vaticanus predate Jerome. They were also discovered after Luther. If your hypothesis were correct, then we would expect to see that the earliest manuscripts would not include them. But they do.
Same with the dead sea scrolls. If these books were non canonical, we would expect not to see them at Qumran. But there they are - right alongside the other books.
That to me suggests that if we were to come across a 1st century LXX manuscript that it would have these books there as well.