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"Lord bless you, yes, child, the kindest critturs in the world they be, if you only get the right side of 'em," said the Captain. "Oh, yes! because," said Mara, "I know how good a wolf was to Romulus and Remus once, and nursed them when they were cast out to die. I read that in the Roman history." "Jist so," said the Captain, enchanted at this historic confirmation of his apocrypha.
And on some mornings, when he read in the Apocrypha, of which he was very fond, the son of Sirach's keen-edged words would bring a delighted smile, though he also enjoyed the freedom of occasionally differing from an Apocryphal writer. For Adam knew the Articles quite well, as became a good churchman.
But you are capable of being seriously unhappy when your suburban train selects a tunnel for its repose! And the A. V. of the Bible, which you now read, not as your forefathers read it, but with an æsthetic delight, especially in the Apocrypha! You remember: Whatsoever is brought upon thee, take cheerfully, and be patient when thou art changed to a low estate.
At the time this was written, there was only the Old Testament, including the Apocrypha, that could be referred to as Scripture, so when we read Paul's assertion that, 'all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, if we take it to be infallible, we have a reasonable ground for regarding the Old Testament and the Apocrypha as infallible.
At their first meeting they determined to propose that, in the public services of the Church, lessons taken from the canonical books of Scripture should be substituted for the lessons taken from the Apocrypha, At the second meeting a strange question was raised by the very last person who ought to have raised it.
"But we must relegate the law of Moses to the Apocrypha, otherwise we are Pharisees and Jewish Christians. What have we to do with circumcision, the paschal lamb, and levitical marriage? Wait till I am Pope." "Must we really wait so long?" "Hush! The noon-bell is ringing. Do not let us neglect our duties. The flesh must have its due, in order not to burn.
"It is obviously an attempt to convey secret information." "But what is the use of a cipher message without the cipher?" "In this instance, none at all." "Why do you say 'in this instance'?" "Because there are many ciphers which I would read as easily as I do the apocrypha of the agony column: such crude devices amuse the intelligence without fatiguing it. But this is different.
The Bible is the spiritually selected record of a particular Self-disclosure of God in a national history which reached its religious goal in Jesus Christ. Romanists and Protestants differ as to how many books constitute the Canon, the former including the so-called Apocrypha books in the Greek translation but not in the original Hebrew Bible.
The letter described the Bible Society as "an infernal society," and referred in passing to "its accursed fecundity." It also strongly resented the omission of the Apocrypha from the Scio Bible.
Very few if any of these Christian fathers of the first two centuries understood the Hebrew; they could not, therefore, use the Palestinian manuscripts; the Greek Bible was their only treasury of inspired truth, and the Greek Bible contained the Apocrypha. Accordingly we find them quoting freely as Sacred Scripture all the apocryphal books.
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