[ThanhPhero]

You threw out that part of Scripture because you didn’t like it. Maccabees.

[xone]

Threw out Maccabees because even St Jerome classified it differently from 'real scripture.'

Apochrypha

Catholics retain it both for the lessons of stories like Tobias and the demon Asmodeus and for verse plucking doctrinal support in the case of prayer for the dead.