There are ample reasons for rejecting the Apocrypha. Jerome giving in to the bishops is not surprising nor convincing. It is a pity to once again see Catholics attacking Protestants.
FWIW, I do not base my rejection of priests, transubstantiation, indulgences, purgatory or the Pope on anything found in the Apocrypha. Also, remember Jerome’s Apocrypha was larger than your deuterocanonicals...
You’ll note, however, that among Jerome’s reasons for including the “apocrypha” into the canon is his assertion that the Catholic (and Orthodox, since they were in union at the time) had made the complete canon a matter of dogma twelve centuries before Luther. In other words, the claim that the Council of Trent ‘added’ the ‘apocrypha’ is a ludicrous lie.
And yes, Martin Luther only moved to remove the apocrypha after the Council of Worms showed him his precious heresies were explicitly refuted in the apocrypha. Lost to most Protestants’ knowledge of history, however, is that in order to remove these Catholic doctrines from the Bible, Luther also got rid of seven New Testament books.
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“It is a pity to once again see Catholics attacking Protestants.”
It’s baffling. There was no attack on protestants, and yet you say there was.