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From the New Advent (Catholic Encyclopedia):"The Protestant Reformers applied the title Apocrypha to the excess of the Catholic canon of the Old Testament over that of the Jews."
i.e. Jesus was a Jew. His scriptures did not contain the the "excess" of the Apocrypha. They were added to the scriptures used by the Apostles and Jesus by the Catholic Church...according to the Catholic Encyclopedia.
i.e. Jesus was a Jew. His scriptures did not contain the the "excess" of the Apocrypha. They were added to the scriptures used by the Apostles and Jesus by the Catholic Church...according to the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Congratulations! You have won the “Maureen Dowd accuracy in citation” award for your inaccurate use of source material.
And now, as Paul Harvey would say, is the rest of the story…
Etymologically, the derivation of Apocrypha is very simple, being from the Greek apokryphos, hidden, and corresponding to the neuter plural of the adjective. The use of the singular, "Apocryphon", is both legitimate and convenient, when referring to a single work. When we would attempt to seize the literary sense attaching to the word, the task is not so easy. It has been employed in various ways by early patristic writers, who have sometimes entirely lost sight of the etymology. Thus it has the connotation "uncanonical" with some of them. St. Jerome evidently applied the term to all quasi-scriptural books which in his estimation lay outside the canon of the Bible, and the Protestant Reformers, following Jerome's catalogue of Old Testament Scriptures -- one which was at once erroneous and singular among the Fathers of the Church -- applied the title Apocrypha to the excess of the Catholic canon of the Old Testament over that of the Jews. Naturally, Catholics refuse to admit such a denomination, and we employ "deuterocanonical" to designate this literature, which non-Catholics conventionally and improperly know as the "Apocrypha".
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