[Iscool]

If you could think logically, you would realize no matter what any modern Orthodox think about the pope, they all believe in the Deuterocanonicals.

Really??? The Deuterocanonicals were not a part of the Old Latin texts that Jerome copied from...That's why he didn't want them in the Vulgate but was forced to put them there...

[vladimir998]

"Really??? The Deuterocanonicals were not a part of the Old Latin texts that Jerome copied from...That's why he didn't want them in the Vulgate but was forced to put them there.." Are you claiming the Eastern Orthodox used the Vulgate? Also, your story makes no sense about St. Jerome being forced to do anything. Read Friedrich Stummer's Einführung in die lateinische Bibel: Ein Handbuch für Vorlesungen und Selbstunterricht (Paderborn: F. Schöningh, 1928) and you'll see on page 126-127 that St. Jerome's earliest Vulgate contained Tobias and Judith, but not Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch and I Maccabees and II Maccabees. Another way of looking at this fanciful story of yours is this: How would people have even have known about the Deuterocanonicals in the Latin speaking West unless they had copies in Latin? And, SURPRISE!, there's plenty of evidence of that. It is well known that St. Jerome himself used the Vetus Latina – the Latin version of the deuterocanonicals – for those 5 books he did not translate but included in his translation. That means a Latin translation ALREADY EXISTED. See Pancratinus C. Beentjes, “Saint Augustine’s Sermons 38-41 on the Book of Ben Sira,” in The Scriptures of Israel in Jewish and Christian Tradition: Essays in Honour of Maarten J. J. Menken, Edited by Bart J. Koet, Steve Moyise and Joseph Verheyden (Leiden: Brill), pages 398-408. Specifically page 398. If anti-Catholics read more and maybe thought more - and certainly prayed more - they might avoid these obviously erroneous anti-Catholic errors. But, no, that doesn't happen.