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To: dangus

And many Early Church Fathers said the deuterocanonicals were not read for doctrine, but ok to read in church. Not God Breathed as Jerome indicates in his preface to the deuterocanonicals.


10 posted on 09/12/2013 10:39:14 AM PDT by bkaycee (John 3:16)
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To: bkaycee

>> And many Early Church Fathers said the deuterocanonicals were not read for doctrine, <<

A very subtle, but key misquote: it’s not that aren’t read *for* doctrine, but that they aren’t read to *prove* doctrine. In most cases when something similar to that is said, the context is an attempt to convert Jews. Since the Jews didn’t hold them as canonical (as of some time AFTER Jesus’ resurrection), the Fathers reckoned it’s no point using them as proof of Christian doctrine. The fact that they are approved to be read in church, however, means that they are to be read for doctrine, since church readings and the subsequent homilies were the typical means of Christian indoctrination; most of what we know of most of the Church fathers comes from homilies.

(I know “homily” is a term used by Catholics for the instruction which comes after the readings, similar to, but more specific than a sermon.)


11 posted on 09/12/2013 3:00:54 PM PDT by dangus
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