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To: G Larry
So, you read the one that contain Maccabees, preserved in both the Septuagint and the Hebrew Scripture, as validated in the Dead Sea Scrolls

I did, but don't the Apocrypha to be Scripture.

To add on a bit since it interests you... here is a quick summary.

Many non-biblical compositions were found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. That does not "validate" them as Scripture.
The Jews themselves did not accept the Apocrypha as Scripture.
Josephus and the Jewish teacher Philo of Alexandria (c 20 BC-AD 50) did not recognize the Apocrypha as Scripture - both Jews who knew the Jewish Canon.
Neither Jesus nor the New Testament writers ever quote the Apocrypha as Scripture.
Jerome, translator of the Latin Vulgate, rejected the Apocrypha as Scripture.
Gregory the Great, bishop of Rome from 590-604 AD rejected the book of 1 Maccabees as canonical in his commentary on the book of Job.

While we could go even more into depth, I think it serves little purpose on this thread.

Nor do I try to convince you.

I only note that I've made a studied decision and along with the Jews, scholars of the Jews, Jesus and the entire group of NT writers, Jerome, and Gregory, I reject the Apocryphal writings as Scripture.

In the meantime, the demonic apparition we are discussing on this thread and the teachings that have hurt so many Catholics is quite sad.

58 posted on 05/10/2017 12:51:33 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

And you don’t mind that Hanukkah is first presented in Maccabees?

There is nothing “demonic” in the Fatima apparitions.


257 posted on 05/11/2017 6:50:59 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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