Steve Ray on Catholic Answers Live
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- And yes, he tended to go to the point of not accepting the
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- Deuterocanonicals as part of the canon of Scripture. He was an exception, by the way. He stood out from all the other fathers.
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- What happened is, Jerome went to the east, and he was there with the Jews in Israel, and he accepted the
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- Hebrew canon, the Jewish canon that those who spoke Hebrew were using. But the whole church as a whole was using the
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- Greek Septuagint of the canon, which included all of the Deuterocanonical books. So, he did cause a bit of problem there, but he was unique, and he was alone in that.
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- And the whole vast witness of the rest of the church did include the Deuterocanonicals. And by the way, they weren't even taken out of Protestant Bibles until the 1800s.