Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger (43 page)

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Goodspeed,
Apocrpha,
10-11.

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See
Tosefta Yadayim
, 2:13 and
Tosefta Shabbath
, 13:5. Moreover, the time-limited canon theory also
speaks against the inspiration of the New Testament since it too was also
written after the time of Ezra.

^[755]
Sundberg, “Protestant Canon,”
202-03.

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Mt 5:18

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For example, the teaching in 2 Mc
12:46 declaration that it is a holy and wholesome thing to pray for the dead
brings meaning to Paul’s practice in 2 Tm 1:18 where he prays for his deceased
friend Onesiphorus or Paul’s complex explanation of purification in 1 Cor
3:11-13.

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2 Tm 3:16

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For example, anti-Catholics
sometimes appeal to the councils of Carthage and Hippo as authentic expressions
of the ancient view of the New Testament canon, while ignoring that these very
same councils also define the Old Testament canon with the Deuterocanon.

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The word “apostolic,” in Luther’s
theology, does not mean any historical connection to the apostles. It means
only that it “preached Christ” like the apostles.

^[761]
Charles A. Briggs,
General
Introduction to the Study of Holy Scripture
(New York: Charles Scribners’
Sons, 1899), 163.

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For example, could this approach determine
whether Mk 16:9-20 is inspired canonical Scripture?

^[763]
Metzger,
Introduction
, 199.

^[764]
Metzger,
Introduction,
200.

^[765]
de Sales, Francis,
The Catholic
Controversy, St. Francis De Sales’ Defense of the Faith
, trans. H. B.
Mackey (Tan Books and Publishers: Rockford, Illinois, 1989), Pt. 2, Art.1, c.
6, 112.

^[766]
Lk 14:26

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It would appear to violate the Ex
20:12, Dt 5:16, Mt 5:14, 19:19, et al.

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This point is ably made by Harold O.
J. Brown in
The Origin of the Bib
le, ed, Philip Wesley Comfort, (Wheaton
Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1992), 44-45.

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This method also violates the
principle of Sola Scriptura since it places one’s intellectual prowess and
investigative abilities as the norm that sets the norm of Scripture. See
Appendix 1.

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H.H. Howorth, “Bible Canon,” 222-23.