the apocrypha was taken out of the bible in 538 bce.
the apocrypha was taken out of the bible in 538 bce.
what year was the apocrypha taken out of the bible?
538 bce
the preface to the apocrypha in the geneva bible explained that while these books "were not received by a common consent to be read and expounded publicly in the church," and did not serve "to prove any point of christian religion save in so much as they had the consent of the other scriptures called canonical to confirm the same," nonetheless, "as books proceeding from godly men they were received to be read for the advancement and furtherance of the knowledge of history and for the instruction of godly manners." later, during the english civil war, the westminster confession of 1647 excluded the apocrypha from the canon and made no recommendation of the apocrypha above "other human writings", and this attitude towards the apocrypha is represented by the decision of the british and foreign bible society in the early 19th century not to print it (see below). today, "english bibles with the apocrypha are becoming more popular again" and they are often printed as intertestamental books.
biblical apocrypha
all king james bibles published before 1666 included the apocrypha, though separately to denote them as not equal to scripture proper, as noted by jerome in the vulgate, to which he gave the name, "the apocrypha." in 1826, the national bible society of scotland petitioned the british and foreign bible society not to print the apocrypha, resulting in a decision that no bfbs funds were to pay for printing any apocryphal books anywhere. they reasoned that not printing the apocrypha within the bible would prove to be less costly to produce. since that time most modern editions of the bible and reprintings of the king james bible omit the apocrypha section. modern non-catholic reprintings of the clementine vulgate commonly omit the apocrypha section. many reprintings of older versions of the bible now omit the apocrypha and many newer translations and revisions have never included them at all.
biblical apocrypha