The Catholic Cardinal who said books of (the) Apocrypha rank lower than the Old and New Testament...— Peter J. Williams (@DrPJWilliams) November 8, 2018
To find out about Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (Cardinal Ximenes, 1436-1517), I took a stroll to a nearby library... pic.twitter.com/NLe9rcEZ3Y
Where there were lots of old Bibles... pic.twitter.com/VgXrSYFtpn— Peter J. Williams (@DrPJWilliams) November 8, 2018
I reached for volume 1 of the Complutensian Polyglot... pic.twitter.com/CwD8wsh5uQ— Peter J. Williams (@DrPJWilliams) November 8, 2018
Turned past the title page... pic.twitter.com/eQTbcDny6A— Peter J. Williams (@DrPJWilliams) November 8, 2018
to the Prologue... pic.twitter.com/vgvqU9xgaN— Peter J. Williams (@DrPJWilliams) November 8, 2018
And looked just over half way down the left hand column of the first page... pic.twitter.com/WYuXQlJc8t— Peter J. Williams (@DrPJWilliams) November 8, 2018
Where it reads...— Peter J. Williams (@DrPJWilliams) November 8, 2018
‘But indeed the books outside the canon, which the church received for edification of the people rather than for confirming the authority of ecclesiastical dogmas only have Greek writing [i.e. no Hebrew].’
Thus on the eve of the Reformation, the top cardinal in Spain says in a volume later approved by the Pope that books of (the) Apocrypha are outside the canon & can’t confirm doctrine.— Peter J. Williams (@DrPJWilliams) November 8, 2018
Protestant rejection of (the) Apocrypha as authoritative goes back to mainstream catholicism.
You forgot the link... https://twitter.com/DrPJWilliams/status/1060670139086094336
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