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To: Mr Rogers
"that the Jews did not accept the Apocrypha as scripture."

Be careful with your facts. "Some" Jews did not accept the Deuterocanonicals, most did. There were at least 5 "Jewish" Canons in the first century.

You can't ascribe an error in this to the Latin Church or even to St. Jerome. The Slavonic, the Syriac, Old Armenian, Old Georgian and Coptic versions of the Old Testament include the Deuterocanonicals. Further, the Early Church Fathers all reference them frequently.

49 posted on 03/17/2012 10:44:07 AM PDT by Natural Law (If you love the Catholic Church raise your hands, if not raise your standards.)
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To: Natural Law

“”Some” Jews did not accept the Deuterocanonicals, most did.”

Jerome says you are wrong. The Jews say you are wrong. And Jesus made it clear what HE accepted - and he did not use the Apocrypha as scripture. I’ll go with the practice of Jesus...

“Trent was hardly the first Ecumenical Council to address the Canon.”

It was the first Ecumenical Council to determine the Canon. That is why it did so. If it had been addressed, once for all, earlier, then Trent would not have needed to do so. Indeed, Cardinal Cajetan would not have written the Pope as he did, if there had been binding direction before Trent.

Then Trent screwed up. The list it gave wasn’t complete. So three books of the Vulgate were moved:

“The Clementine differed from the manuscripts on which it was ultimately based in that it grouped the various prefaces of St. Jerome together at the beginning, and it removed 3 and 4 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasses from the Old Testament and placed them as Apocrypha into an appendix following the New Testament.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgata#Clementine_Vulgate

Thus the Apocrypha became the Deuterocanon - because there had to be a way to reconcile the infallible list of Trent with the Old Vulgate that Trent also said was correct.


52 posted on 03/17/2012 11:25:53 AM PDT by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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