Dar Supple,
Thank you. Article VI of what?
I guess the epistle to the Laodiceans would be Pseudipigraphal. I like its
urging to do works that are "just, and lovely."
pat sloane
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In a message dated 10-9-1999 6:23:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> > > 2) Do Anglicans use the Catholic or the Protestant version of the
> > Bible?
>
> The Anglican Canon is set out in Article VI of the 39 Articles. It
> lists the books of the Hebrew canon, and goes on:
>
> "And the other Books (as Hierome saith) the Church doth read for
> example of life and instruction of manners; but yet doth it not apply
> them to establish any doctrine; such are these following:
>
> "The Third Book of Esdras
> The Fourth Book of Esdras
> The Book of Tobias
> The Book of Judith
> The rest of the Book of Esther
> The Book of Wisdom
> Jesus the Son of Sirach
> Baruch the Prophet
> The Song of the Three Children
> The Story of Susanna,
> Of Bel and the Dragon
> The Prayer of Manasses
> The First Book of Macabees
> The Second Book of Maccabees.
>
> "All the Books of the New Testament, as they are commonly received, we
> do receive, and account them Canonical."
>
> These "other books" were relegated in Anglican Bibles to an appendix
> which it called the "Apocrypha"; other protestant churches rejected
> them altogether, and their bibles do not contain these books at all.
>
> The Supple Doctor.
>
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