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["Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:55:52 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> I had never heard the story that the translation committee assembled
> under appointment by King James I had included the Apocrypha in the first
> edition.  All of the editions of the King James Version translation that
> I have seen are purported to be the "authorized" version of 1611, i.e.,
> the version "authorized" by King James I.  None of them include the
> Apocrypha.

I believe that is correct.

> According to a Roman Catholic nun who was my school teacher when I was
> in the eighth grade, all of the translations of the Bible authorized by
> the then current pope and all past pontiffs of the Roman Catholic Church
> include the Apocrypha.  Of course she was of the opinion that all the
> popes are much better qualified than a king of England to determine which
> books ought to be included in a translation of the Bible.  Was she wrong
> about her understanding of history that King James I did not want to
> include the Apocrypha?

But the Council of Nicaea in 325 threw out a lot of "heretic" books and
defined what should be included in the Bible.

I have no information about these so-called heretic books, but I believe
that the book of James may have been one of them.



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