Thursday, August 8, 2013

Apocrypha...a missing part of the Bible

Let's define the word Apocrypha by different sources...

(www.merriam-webster.com)

Apocrypha is a word that has a medieval Latin origin that means "secret" or not canonical (conforming to a general rule or acceptable procedure) in Greek (apokryphos) it means "obscure", from apokryptein to hide away, from apo- + kryptein --- to hide.

1) writings or statements of dubious authenticity
2) capitalized
       a : books included in the Septuagint and Vulgate
            but excluded from the Jewish and Protestant
            canons of the Old Testament
       b : early Christian writings not included in the
             New Testament

(www.thefreedictionary.com)

1) (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) the 14 books
    included as an appendix to the Old Testament in
    Septuagint and the Vulgate but not included in the
    Hebrew canon. They are not in Protestant versions
    of the Bible. 
2) (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) RC Church
    Another name for the Pseudepigrapha
[Via Late Latin apocrypha (scripta) hidden (writings), from Greek, apokruptein to hide away]

(Peloubet's Bible Dictionary)

1) The primary meaning of apocrypha, "hidden, secret," seems, toward the close of the second century, to have been associated with signification "spurious," and ultimately to have settled down into the latter. The seperate books of this collection treated of in distinct articles.

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