PROTESTANT AND THE DEUTEROCANONICAL

      At the time of the reformtion, opinion were divided about whether to include certain books in the old testament canon. The books in question, which are wrongly termed "the Apocrypha" ("not authentic") by Protestants, are called the "Deuterocanonical" ("second canon") books by catholics: they are Tobias (Tobit), Judith, 1 and 2 Machabees, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach), and Baruch.Portions of Daniel and Esther. At the council of Trent the Catholic Church declared them part of the biblical canon. Protestants differred. In his great german translation of Bible, Martin Luther grouped the Deuterocanonical and possitioned them between the old and new Testaments. Athough he did not define the limits of the Testament canon, Luther thus indicated that the Deuterocanonical are seperate and distinct from the scriptures. 
      Other early reformers agreed. In the Zurich Bible of 1529 and the English Geneva Bible of 1560, the Protestant editors seperated the Deuterocanonical from the rest of the Bible and gave them special headings. Although they did not totally reject these works which had enjoyed wide use in the church through the centuries, they did not treat them as equal to other books. 
      In the years that followed, attempts were made to have the Deuterocanonical removed from Protestant Bibles, but these efforts failed They where however grouped seperately by the Galican confession of 1559, the Aglican confession of 1563 and the second Helvitic Confession of 1566. The Puritan Confession was less tolerant, holding that the Deuterocanonical where of purely secular character.
     Reformation Bibles including the first edition of the King James Version placed them apart from the accepted books in a kind of appendix. The 1629 edition of the King James Version left them out completely, but otherwise the practice of printing them seperately continued. Then in 1825, the Edinburgh Committee of the British and foreign Bible society convinced the society's leaders that the Deuterocanonical should no longer be included in Bibles taken by the missionaries to the heathens, over the next 100 years the Deuterocanonical were generally left out of Protestant Bibles, but many of today's Bibles now print them seperately. 

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