Deuterocanonical Books
Scripture or apocrypha? The books whose canonical status divides the churches
The deuterocanonical books, such as Tobit, Wisdom, and Maccabees, are writings received as Scripture by some Christian traditions but not others. Found in the Septuagint and viewed with reservation by Jerome, they were later affirmed at Trent. Their status is contested: Catholics and the Orthodox regard them as canonical, with Orthodox lists varying in extent, while Protestants regard them as apocrypha, valuable but not authoritative Scripture.
How it traveled
- The Church History of EusebiusCaesarea · c. 339 CEexplains
Key passages(13)
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A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed · Rufinus of Aquileia
38. But it should be known that there are also other books which our fathers call not “Canonical” but “Ecclesiastical:” that is to say, Wisdom, called the Wisdom of Solomon, and another Wisdom, called
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Expositions on the Book of Psalms · Augustine of Hippo
Psalm XXXVI. Lat. XXXV. 1. …“The ungodly hath said in himself that he will sin: there is no fear of God before his eyes” (ver. 1). Not of one man, but of a race of ungodly men he speaketh, who fight
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Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life · Athanasius of Alexandria
For behold they that hold the Place are charged by them that love God with making it a den of thieves, and with madly making the Holy Place a house of merchandise, and a house of judicial business for
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The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril · Cyril of Jerusalem
τῶν ἀποκρύφων. The sense in which Cyril uses this term may be learned from Rufinus (Expositio Symboli, § 38), who distinguishes three classes of books: (1) The Canonical Books of the Old and New Testa
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The Church History of Eusebius · Eusebius of Caesarea
The peculiar thing about the list is the omission of the Twelve Minor Prophets and the insertion of the Epistle of Jeremiah. The former were certainly looked upon by Origen as sacred books, for he wro
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Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
To the passage which they produce from the history of the Maccabees (1 Macc. 12:43), I will not deign to reply, lest I should seem to include that work among the canonical books. But AugustineLuke 24:
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The Church History of Eusebius · Eusebius of Caesarea
ὁ προτρεπτικὸς εἰς ὑπομονὴν ἢ πρὸς τοὺς νεωστὶ βεβαπτισμένους. This work is mentioned neither by Jerome nor by Photius, nor has any vestige of it been preserved, so far as we know. ὁ ἐπιγεγραμμένος κ
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The Third Ecumenical Council: The Council of Ephesus · The Ecumenical Councils
The Letter of the Same Holy Synod of Ephesus, to the Sacred Synod in Pamphylia Concerning Eustathius Who Had Been Their Metropolitan. (Labbe and Cossart, Concilia, Tome III., col. 806.) Forasmuch as
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The Church History of Eusebius · Eusebius of Caesarea
Chapter XXV.—His Review of the Canonical Scriptures. 1. When expounding the first Psalm, On Origen’s commentary on Psalms, see the previous chapter, note 3. The first fragment given here by Eusebius
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Elucidations. ———————————— I. (Teaching of the Church, p. 240.) It is noteworthy how frequently our author employs this expression in this immediate connection. Concerning the punishment of the wi
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Letters of St. Augustin · Augustine of Hippo
17. Peter therefore pretended to keep the law; but this censor of Peter boldly observed the things prescribed by the law. The next words of your letter are these: “For if Paul observed these sacrament
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The Church History of Eusebius · Eusebius of Caesarea
Chapter VIII.—The Statements of Irenæus in regard to the Divine Scriptures. 1. Since, in the beginning of this work, Eusebius is apparently thinking of the preface to his work contained in Bk. I. ch
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The Church History of Eusebius · Eusebius of Caesarea
12. But, as they were then subject to the Macedonians, they sent to Ptolemy seventy elders, who were the most skilled among them in the Scriptures and in both languages. Thus God accomplished his purp
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