Development of the New Testament canon 1290 to include in the Armenian canon several apocryphal books: Advice of the Mother of God to the Apostles, the Books of Criapos, and the ever-popular Epistle of Barnabas. The Armenian Apostolic church at times has included the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs in its Old Testament and the Third Epistle to the Corinthians, but does not always list it with the other 27 canonical New Testament books. The New Testament of the Coptic Bible, adopted by the Egyptian Church, includes the two Epistles of Clement. The canon of the Tewahedo Churches is somewhat looser than for other traditional Christian
Development of the Old Testament canon the New Testament) rather than upon Jerome's translation into Latin, which at the time was the Bible of the Catholic Church. The reformers saw the Apocrypha at variance with the rest of Scripture. The Roman Catholic Church uses them to support the doctrine of Purgatory, for prayers and Masses for the dead (), and for the efficacy of good works in attaining salvation (; ), things that Protestants then and today deem to be blatantly contradicting other parts of the Bible. Luther did remove the deuterocanonical books from the Old Testament of his translation of the Bible, placing them in