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[loveminus0]

I'm currently trying to convince my parents that they ought to consider the Deuterocanonicals as part of the biblical canon. To that end, I sent a huge list of quotations from the Church Fathers referencing them. I stole them from www.CatholicAnswers.org. I thought that I'd go ahead and post them here, in case anyone was interested:

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[thepresidentrix]

This is all very interesting - I don't think I've even heard of the deuterocanonicals as a class - at least under that name. Tobit, Maccabees, and some others I have heard of individually...

[loveminus0]

They're usually called the apocrypha by protestants, since they don't accept them as part of the scriptural canon.

[thepresidentrix]

But you don't accept all of them, right? For I have been under the impression that when it comes to apocryphal books, Some Are More Ridiculous Than Others. (This is what looking things up is for, Emily...)

To Wikipedia, Robin!!!

Heh.

[loveminus0]

Actually, the Wikipedia page on "deuterocanonical" is quite good.

We don't accept as canon truly "apocryphal" books - that's basically just what the word means. Those certainly vary from heretical nonsense to good devotional reading that simply isn't considered "inspired" or authoritative in the way necessary for canonization".

See, the difference is that we don't consider the "deuterocanonicals" to be "apocryphal". Deuterocanonical just refers to their coming from the Septuagint (the Greek Hebrew scriptures) and not a part of the later Hebrew scriptures.

[thepresidentrix]

Oh, sorry. I was being... abbreviative? By 'apocryphal,' I was meaning 'those books which I have previously seen classed as such.' Or something. This is all quite intriguing. I've always liked what I've heard from Tobit...