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Apocrypha: Hebrew Bible
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Rebuttal: The Apocrypha were additions to the Bible, not corruptions of the Bible. The distinction of the Apocrypha was always known. God’s word enduring means that His truth will always be present; cultists make corrupt copies of the Bible all the time.
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The Apocrypha refer to texts which are left out of officially sanctioned versions ('canon') of the Bible. The term means 'things hidden away,' which implies secret or esoteric literature. However, none of these texts were ever considered secret.
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The Reformed tradition came to accord an even lower status to the Apocrypha, particularly in England, where editions of the Geneva Bible began in 1599 to omit it and the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646-48) equated it with secular literature. The Church of England, on the other hand, resisted this tendency and included readings from the Apocrypha in its lectionary. In 1827, after a decade of particularly acrimonious debate, the British and Foreign Bible Society refused to support continental societies that circulated Bibles containing the Apocrypha.
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All King James Bibles published before 1640 included the Apocrypha. In 1826, the British and Foreign Bible Society decided to refuse to distribute Bibles containing the Apocrypha. Since then most modern editions of the Bible and re-printings of the King James Bible omit the Apocrypha section. Many modern reprintings of the Clementine Vulgate and Douay-Rheims version no longer contain the Apocrypha section. Many of the more modern translations and revisions do not contain an apocrypha section at all.
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As in Christian use of the codex in an earlier age, the technology and economics of publishing may have had an impact upon the Apocrypha. English language editors have sought to fill a demand for lighter and perhaps more economical Bibles by omitting it from their editions. Such a measure... is only possible as a result of its devaluation in status.
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Jerome vigorously resisted including the Apocrypha in his Latin Vulgate Version (400 AD), but was overruled. As a result, the standard Roman Catholic Bible throughout the medieval period contained it. Thus, it gradually came to be revered by the average clergyman. Still, many medieval Catholic scholars realized that it was not inspired.
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