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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Rome itself did not include the false book Maccabees until 1,400 years after Christ.

You should really read more church history. Maccabees was indeed accepted and used in the liturgy of the early church. It was included in the Septuagint Old Testament which was the version used by the early church. Its inclusion in the Bible was definitively affirmed both by a series of North African councils and Pope Damasus I in the late 4th century.

Christ didn’t accept it ever.

The Jews didn’t accept it.

The biblical quotes of our Lord in the New Testament are taken from the Septuagint, a 3rd century Greek translation of the Old Testament made by Jewish scholars in Alexandria. Maccabees and the other deuterocanonical books of the Septuagint were only rejected by Jewish authorities in the Late Antiquity after Christ. Of course, at the time they also rejected the entire New Testament.

132 posted on 11/06/2018 5:52:29 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius
The biblical quotes of our Lord in the New Testament are taken from the Septuagint, a 3rd century Greek translation of the Old Testament made by Jewish scholars in Alexandria.

Best fix this for you...

"The biblical quotes of our Lord in the New Testament are inspired by the Holy Spirit."

134 posted on 11/06/2018 6:20:51 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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