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Note: Gods Elect or Elect means Jews
Introduction
The Apocrypha (These books are actually true) is a group of books that are disputed today. Some believe they should be included in the bible and others do not.
In addition to the incomplete 66 books Canon. These groups add the following:
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Note*- These are simply given it doesnt mean it is Apocrypha.
The major arguments against the Apocrypha are:
1.No Hebrew Copies. Jerome (5th Century) noticed they were included in the Septuagint (Greek version of the bible) but there were no copies of them in Hebrew. This would seem to indicate that they may have never been a part of the Jewish canon.
When the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1948 they contained Hebrew copies of 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, Sirach,baruch along with Letter of Jeremiah and Psalm 151.
Historical errors.
Some of them contain very obvious historical errors. For instance in Judith, there is a mention of king Nebuchadnezzar instead of the King of Assyria, this is about a 100 years discrepancy.
Justin Martyr (165AD) stated, in Dialogue 41,72,73, that the Elect removed passages from Jeremiah (11:19), Isaiah, Psalm 96 and Esdras because they point to Christ. Apparently all were put back in Christian copies except the prophecies from Esdras and part of Psalm 96, which we still do not have.
Origen (240AD) states, in his letter to Africanus 8, that these did not exist in the Hebrew Canon because the unbelieving Elects removed them (council of Yavneh, 90 AD). These Elects created some very obvious errors in the Greek versions and destroyed the Hebrew versions in in order to convince readers they were fake. In chapter 13 he states that because of this some in his day were doubting the authenticity of Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, parts of Esther, Jeremiah, Exodus, Genesis, Tobit, and Psalm 155. That same council of Yavneh defined (Christians) as heretics, stating they are “no longer the people of God.”
The chart below show which early church fathers said anything about the Apocrypha. Below that are references.
| Tob | Sus | Bel | Wis | Barn | Did | En | Bar | Ep.Jer | 1 Mac | 2 Mac | Shep. | Sir | Jud | 4 Esd | |
| Clement of R | b | b | |||||||||||||
| Polycarp | b | ||||||||||||||
| Ignatius | b | ||||||||||||||
| Barnabas | A | ||||||||||||||
| Justin Martyr | b | ||||||||||||||
| Clement of A | A | A | A | b | A | b | b | A | b | b | |||||
| Origen | b | A | b | A,c | A | b,c | b | b,c | A | ||||||
| Irenaeus | b | b | b | b | b | A | b | ||||||||
| Eusebius | b,c | b | c | c | b | b | b | b | b | ||||||
| Cyprian | b | b | A | A | b |
A) calls it Scripture, b) Quotes it, c) says some dispute it, d) disputes it.
References:
| Clement of Rome: 1 Clement 27,55 Polycarp: 10 Ignatius: Mag. 3L, Epist of Barnabas: 6 Justin Martyr: 2 Apol. 5 Irenaeus: 2.28, 4.5, 4.16, 4.20, 4.26, 5.35 | Clement of Alexandria: Mics. 2.23.139, 2.31.2, Inst. 1,8,1.10, 2.3, 2.9, Str. 1.29, 2.7, 3.16, 6.3. Origen: Of first principles 1:2:5, 1:3:3, 2:1:5, 2:9:3, 3:2:4, 4:1:11, 4:1:32; Cel 1:63, 5:48, 6:7; Rom 1:24 Cyprian: Epistles 51,54,55,70 & Against Jews Eusebius: H.E. 3.25.4 |
Bibles:
The Septuagint (Greek version of the old testament dating from 300 BC) contains the Apocrypha. This is the version that the New Testament quotes from.
Dead Sea Scrolls has all the Old Testament except Esther and have some of the Apocrypha. Some 60% of the Dead Sea manuscripts agree with the MT but the majority of the other 40% agree with the Septuagint.
Geneva Bible contained the Apocrypha up to its 1559 version, in the last printing however in 1599 the apocrypha was removed.
The KJV contained the Apocrypha in its fist printing in 1611. From then it was printed with and without the Apocrypha until 1827.
Objections:
Almsgiving atones for sin - prov.16:6 - Tob. 4:10,12:9
Purgatory - 2 Mac 12
Alleged Pre-existence Of Souls-Wisdom 18:19,20
Account on 14 Books
Wisdom of Solomon
This book is quoted in muratorian CANON fragment as written by Solomon's friends in his honor after his death.
Sirach, tobit, judith, 2 esdras, Baruch along with Jeremiah's letter, Psalm 151-160
These Books are Found in Dead sea scroll in hebrew which indicates that it is authentic.
Susanna, Bel and Dragon, Prayer of Azariah
These are the Parts of Daniel which is very Parrallel in writing
Sussana begins before the hebrew 1st chapter of Daniel.
Prayer of Azariah starts around Daniel 3:23.
Bel and Dragon starts after 12th Chapter of Daniel.
Possible quotes of the Apocrypha from the New Testament
These are from my Own Translations
Matt 6:l9-20 – “keep up for yourselves treasures in heaven, in which neither moth nor rust consumes and wherein thieves do no longer (or cannot) spoil in and steal.”
Jam 5:3 f– Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust can be proof in opposition to you, and it will eat your flesh like fireplace. You've got laid up treasure for the remaining days.
Sirach 29:10-11 – Lose your silver for the sake of a brother or a pal, and do not let it rust beneath a stone and be misplaced. Lay up your treasure in line with the commandments of the most high God, and it'll earnings you extra than gold.
Matt 7:I2 – “In the whole thing do to others as .. you will have them do to you;”
Tobit 4:15 – Do not do to others What you hate
Matthew 7:l6,20 – “you'll recognize them by fruit (or end and result)”
Sirach 27:6 – Its fruit discloses the cultivation of a tree.
Matthew l6:18 – “and that i let you know, you're Peter, and on this rock i can construct my church, and the gates of Hades will now not prevail towards it.”
Wisdom solomon 16:l3 – For you have got strength over lifestyles and loss of life; you lead mortals right down to the gates of Hades and again again. (It have to be cited that the Hebrew references to the gates of Sheol in task 38:17 and Isaiah 38:10 is translated to “gates of Hades” within the Septuagint.)
Matthew 27:43 – if he is God’s Son, allow God deliver him from His adversaries
Solomons wisdom 2:18 – if the righteous guy is God’s toddler, he's going to help him, and could supply him from the hand of his adversaries
Mark 9:l48 – it's far higher that allows you to input the kingdom of God with one eye than to have eyes and to be thrown into hell where their worms (malicious) by no means dies, and the fire is never quenched.
Judith 16:17 – The Lord Almighty will take vengeance on them in the day of judgment; he'll ship fireplace and worms into their flesh; they shall weep in pain all the time.
Luke I:52 – He [Jesus] has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly;
Sirach 10:14 – The Lord [yahweh]overthrows the thrones of rulers, and enthrones the lowly in their region.
Acts 1:7 – He responded, “It isn't so one can understand the times or durations that the father has set by using his very own authority.
1 Thessalonians five:1 – Now concerning the instances and the seasons, brothers and sisters, you do no longer need to have something written to you.
Wisdom of sol 8;8 – she (wisdoms) has foreknowledge of signs and wonders and of the final results of seasons and instances.
John 6:35-59 – Jesus stated to them, “i'm the bread of life. Whoever involves me will by no means be hungry, and whoever believes in me will in no way be thirsty.
Sirach 24:21 – folks that eat of me (wisdoms) will hunger for greater, and people who drink of me will thirst for more.
John 10:22 – At that point the pageant of the willpower came about in Jerusalem. It turned into iciness …. (pageant not in OT)
1 Maccabees four:59 – Then Judas and his brothers and all the assembly of Israel determined that each year at that season the days of willpower of the altar ought to be located with joy and gladness for eight days, beginning with the twenty-fifth day of the month of Chislev.
Acts 17:29 – given that we're God’s offspring, we ought now not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed via the art and creativeness of mortals. (a couple OT passages touch in this topic but not anything much like knowledge 13:10.)
Awareness thirteen:10 – but depressing, with their hopes set on lifeless matters, are folks who supply the name “gods” to the works of human palms, gold and silver usual with ability, and likenesses of animals, or a useless stone, the work of an historic hand.
Romans n9:21
Has the potter no proper over the clay, to make out of the identical lump one object for special use and every other for normal use?
Wisdom 15:7
A potter kneads the soft earth
And laboriously molds each vessel for our carrier,
Fashioning out of the identical clay
Both the vessels that serve smooth uses
And people for contrary makes use of, making all alike;
However which shall be the use of every of them
The employee in clay makes a decision.
Ephesians 6:13-17
Stand therefore, and attach the belt of fact round your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness. As shoes for your feet put on some thing will make you prepared to proclaim the gospel of peace. With all of these, take the guard of christ, with which you'll be capable of quench all of the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, that is the word of God.
Wisdom f5:17-20
The Lord will take his zeal as his whole armor, And will arm all introduction to repel his enemies; He's going to put on righteousness as a breastplate , And wear impartial justice as a helmet;
He'll take holiness as an invincible defend, And sharpen stern wrath for a sword, And advent will be part of with him to fight towards his frenzied foes.
Hebrews ll:5 – For it become attested before he changed into taken away that “he had thrilled God.”
Wisdom of sol 4:10 – There were a few who pleased God and had been loved with the aid of him, and at the same time as dwelling among sinners have been taken up.
Sirach 44:l6 – Enoch pleased the Lord and become taken up, an example of repentance to all generations.
Hebrews 11:35 – girls acquired their lifeless via resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to simply accept release, so one can obtain a better resurrection. (The “corridor of religion” discourse in Hebrews definitely references the martyrdom of the 7 brothers in 2 Maccabees. A complete analyzing of chapter 7 in I Maccabees is suggested.)
2 Maccabees 7:1-42 – After he too had died, they maltreated and tortured the fourth within the equal manner. 14 whilst he changed into near demise, he said, “One can not however pick to die at the arms of mortals and to cherish the desire God offers of being raised once more by using him. However for you there can be no resurrection to existence!”
Hebrews 12:12 – consequently lift your drooping fingers and fortify your susceptible knees (reference to loss of area)
Sirach 25:23 – Dejected thoughts, gloomy face, and wounded coronary heart come from an evil wife. Drooping palms and weak knees come from the wife who does no longer make her husband satisfied.
James 1:19 – You must apprehend this, my loved: let all of us be brief to concentrate, slow to talk, slow to anger.
Sirach five:11 – Be quick to listen, however planned in answering.
James 2;23 – this is the reason the scripture became fulfilled that announces, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,”
I Maccabees 2:f52 two – changed into now not Abraham observed faithful when examined, and it become reckoned to him as righteousness?
1 Peter 1:7 – so that the genuineness of your religion—being extra valuable than gold that, although perishable, is examined via fire …
Wisdom 3:f5-6 – because God examined them and found them worthy of himself; like gold in the furnace he attempted them
Sirach 2:5 – For gold is tested within the fire, and people determined appropriate, within the furnace of humiliation
1 Peter 1:17 – in case you invoke as Father the only who judges anyone impartially in step with their deeds, live in reverent fear for the duration of the time of your exile.
Sirach 16:12 – wonderful as is his mercy, so is also his chastisement; he judges someone according to his or her deeds.
Revelation 1:four – Grace to you and peace from him who's and who become and who's to come back, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne.
Tobit I2:I5 – “i'm _Raphael, one of the seven angels who stand equipped and input before the honor of the Lord.”
Revelation 8:3e-4 – And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.
Tobit 12:12,15 – So now whilst you and Sarah prayed, it turned into I (the angel Raphael) who brought and read the document of your prayer earlier than the dignity of the Lord, and also on every occasion you would bury the useless.
Matthew 23:37 – Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the town that kills the prophets and stones folks who are despatched to it! How regularly have I favored to acquire your children together as a fowl gathers her brood below her wings, and you have been not willing!
2 Esdras 1:30 – I accrued you as a fowl gathers her chicks beneath her wings. However now, what shall I do to you? I'm able to cast you out from my presence.
Matthew 22:25; Mark 12:20; Luke 20:29 – Now there were seven brothers; the primary married, and died childless; ……..
Tobit 3:e8 – For she had been married to seven husbands, and the wicked demon Asmodeus had killed every of them …
Tobit 7:II – i've given her to seven guys of our kinsmen(group), and all died on the night when they went in to her ….
Mark 4:f5,16-17 – Jesus’ description of seeds falling on rocky ground and having no root follows
Sirach 40:15 – The youngsters of the ungodly positioned out few branches; they are unhealthy roots on sheer rock.
Revelation 8;7 – the first angel blew his trumpet, and there came hail and hearth
Wis of sol 16:22 – Snow and ice withstood fire with out melting, so that they may recognize that the plants in their enemies were being destroyed…
Sirach 39:29 – fireplace and hail and famine and pestilence, all these had been created for vengeance;
Revelation 19:ll – Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse! Its rider is referred to as trustworthy and authentic, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
2 Maccabees ll:8 – when they were still close to Jerusalem, a horseman appeared at their head, clothed in white and brandishing weapons of gold.
Hebrews 1:3 – He (Jesus) is the reflection of God’s glory and the precise imprint of God’s very being
Wis of solm 7:26 – For she ( the wisdoms) is a reflection of __very eternal mild, a spotless reflect of the operating of God, and an image of his goodness.
The subject of prayers growing up to the throne room of God, through the hands of the angels
Revelation 8;3-4 – some other angel with a golden censer came and stood at the altar; he turned into given a amazing quantity of incense to provide with the prayers of all of the saints on the golden altar that is before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense z, with the prayers of the saints, rose earlier than God from the hand of the angel.
Tobit 12:12-15 – So now whilst you and Sarah prayed, it became I who added and read[a] the document of your prayer earlier than the distinction of the Lord, and also whenever you'll bury the dead. (T13) And that point whilst you did not hesitate to get up and depart your dinner to head and bury the useless, 14 i used to be despatched to you to test you. And at the equal time God despatched me to heal you and Sarah your daughter-in-law. 15 i'm Raphael [out 7 angel], one of the seven angels who stand geared up and enter earlier than the honor of the Lord.”
Notes:
Irenaeus A.H. 3:21 - Quotes some of the missing Isaiah.
Hippolytus Jews 9 - Quotes from Wisdom 2 as a prophecy of Solomon on the Jews rejecting Christ.
Clement of Alexandria Stromata 3.10 - He quotes from the gospel of the Hebrews and the gospel of the Egyptians.
Tertullian Idolatry 1.15 - Quotes Enoch
Tertullian Apparel of Women 1.3 - The book written by Enoch(1 Enoch) is genuine scripture. It Is not received by some people, because it is not added into the elects canon either. the elect rejected it, like many other portions of scripture, because it testifies of the Christ. more proof is the fact that Jude quotes it.
Origen OFP. 1:2:3 Quotes Acts of Paul
Origen OFP. 1:3:3 calls pastor of Hermas a treatise
Origen Cel. 1:63 - Quotes Epistle of Barnabas
Origen Cel. 5:48 - Says the two books of Enoch are not considered sacred by the church, but in another place he quotes 1 Enoch as authoritative.
Origen Cel. 8:46 - Mentions the books of Maccabees. (b)
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