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To: Gamecock
Sometimes, the New Testament refers to Apocryphal books, but such books are never quoted as if they are Scripture (for example, Jude 14–15).

I think an even clearer reference would be Jude 1:9 (Douay-Rheims) "When Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil, contended about the body of Moses, he durst not bring against him the judgment of railing speech, but said: The Lord command thee."

Now, that is described in detail in an apocryphal book called the "Assumption of Moses", but both that work and St. Jude's reference to the event may come from the same oral Tradition rather than from the Apocryphal work, which even if not part of the written divinely-inspired Canon, may well be at least in part historically true.


11 posted on 02/15/2017 6:09:02 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
"When Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil, contended about the body of Moses, he durst not bring against him the judgment of railing speech, but said: The Lord command thee."

What 'body'??

I thought Moses was in Heaven now; just like Mary and the 'saints'?

95 posted on 02/16/2017 4:21:18 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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