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[The Bible Cause: History of The American Bible Society; by John Fea, Chapter 6 excerpts]
[Edit; Shortened due to copyright concerns]
The ABS took a decidedly Protestant and American approach to the Bible. The Bible was a book of liberty. It not only taught individuals how to be free from...
"Origen's Hexapla--Its object"
36. But Origen also, you will tell us, in composing his work called the Hexapla, adopted the asterisks, taking them from the translation of Theodotion. How is this? You produce Origen sometimes for condemnation, sometimes for imitation, at your own caprice. But...
"Has the Church had spurious Scriptures?"
34. But let us grant that the Apostle Peter was unable to do what our friend has lately done. Was Paul illiterate? We ask; He who was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, touching the law a Pharisee, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel? Could not he, when he was at...
(Grab some popcorn![emoji897])
Excerpts from Book two of his Apology against Jerome, does his allegations against Jerome hold weight? Discuss!
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"Jerome's translation of the Scriptures impugned"
32. Perhaps it was a greater piece of audacity to alter the books...
I know that, I even mentioned it earlier, I only meant that according to Jesus He refers to Elijah as John the Baptist.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all...
I go by the original name "Ecclesiastical", Catholics call them "Deuterocanonical", I have no problem with the Catholic term just as long as they hold to the position that they are not to be used to establish doctrine (which is Canon), but obviously they did by creating the doctrine of Purgatory...
Ecclesiastical are known by other names, one being Deuterocanonical, another being the so called "Apocrypha" which is an untrue term because true Apocrypha works weren't read in the churches
Well this dude called them canon as well, it appears that some had two classes and others included both classes as one canon.
The 16th Century Church obviously didn't want protestants attending
Augustine of Hippo Enchiridion of Christian Doctrine Book 2 par 12-13 (354-430 ad)
“But let us now...