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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas; Elsie
Are the books of the Macabbees infallible according to the Catholic Church?

The Jews Never accepted the apocrypha as part of the Old testament canon. Even the Jewish historian recorded as much. It's interesting how you switch from Macabbees into the Septuagint. The apocrypha was not part of the Septuagint.

2,269 posted on 10/18/2014 2:54:51 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus info)
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To: CynicalBear
The Jews Never accepted the apocrypha as part of the Old testament canon.

Which Jews? When?

The overwhelming number of OT citations in the NT are from the Septuagint. The Septuagint is the Greek translation of the OT, which contains the "deuterocanonical" or "apocryphal" books of the OT.

Protestant authors Archer and Chirichigno list 340 places where the New Testament cites the Septuagint but only 33 places where it cites from the Masoretic Text rather than the Septuagint (G. Archer and G. C. Chirichigno, Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament: A Complete Survey, 25-32).
The Jewish canon wasn't settled in Jesus' time, and a consensus didn't develop until the second century, well into the Church age, when the Jews were probably motivated to distance themselves from Christians. Regardless, by the second century, Hebrew teaching authority had been superseded by the Church, "the pillar and foundation of truth."

"If he will not listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or tax collector." -- Jesus

2,303 posted on 10/18/2014 4:31:23 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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