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Apocrypha
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  • You know, for a moment in Star Wars Apocrypha, Han was actually married to a Wookiee, but does anyone freak out about that?†   (source)
  • Too bad neither of the ministers thought of that one, but the books of the Apocrypha are usually omitted from Protestant editions of the Bible.†   (source)
  • Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca had purloined the key and ventured inside; the myth of what the vault contained was bewitching-the original manuscript for the fourteen unpublished books of the Bible known as the Apocrypha, the third prophecy of Fatima, the first two having come true and the third so terrifying the church would never reveal it.†   (source)
  • He sometimes has us copy from Old King James, but prefers to use the American Translation that includes his peculiarly beloved Apocrypha.†   (source)
  • And he laughed, and said that strictly speaking it was not, as the story was in the Apocrypha.†   (source)
  • Pastor Falk was saying that this person was enthralled by esoteric sources, specifically the Apocrypha.†   (source)
  • And yet one grows up with all kinds of apocrypha and lore, yes?†   (source)
  • That is one pet project of the Reverend's: getting other Baptists to swallow the Apocrypha.†   (source)
  • I've heard about the books of the Apocrypha but have never read them.†   (source)
  • He put away the Apocrypha and got into his tracksuit, locking the door before he set off.†   (source)
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  • Father has always stood firm on the Apocrypha, though most other preachers look down on him for it.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the Apocrypha are included in the old Greek translation of the Bible.†   (source)
  • This morning he was preaching on Bel in the temple, from the Apocrypha.†   (source)
  • The Apocrypha were actually published as a state report from the Bible Commission in the eighties.†   (source)
  • If you include the Apocrypha, which of course he always did.†   (source)
  • "You don't happen to have a copy of the Apocrypha, do you?"†   (source)
  • Then he said the Apocrypha was a book where they'd put all the stories from Biblical times that they'd decided should not go into the Bible.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist spent two hours in the garden behind his cabin going through the Apocrypha without gaining a single insight.†   (source)
  • "So if someone has a passion for religion, it's not unthinkable that the Apocrypha will pop up on their reading list, or that someone like Pastor Falk would be upset by this."†   (source)
  • The Greek word apokryphos means 'hidden,' and the Apocrypha are therefore the hidden books which some consider highly controversial and others think should be included in the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther deleted the Apocrypha from the Reformation's Bible and later Calvin declared that the Apocrypha absolutely must not serve as the basis for convictions in matters of faith.†   (source)
  • For example, the Apocrypha claim that magic can be practised and that lies in certain cases may be permissible, and such statements, of course, upset dogmatic interpreters of Scripture.†   (source)
  • The Apocrypha were deleted from the Hebrew Bible—not because Jewish scholars mistrusted their content but simply because they were written after the time when God's revelatory work was concluded.†   (source)
  • She had linked a number of Bible quotes to a series of murders and then had methodically read not only her Bible but also the Apocrypha, and she had developed an interest in Catholicism.†   (source)
  • Encountering the Apocrypha is almost unavoidable if you're studying the Bible or the Catholic faith, and it's equally probable that someone who is interested in esoterica in general might read them."†   (source)
  • SONG OF THE THREE CHILDREN, 7–19 THE APOCRYPHA Rachel Price THE EQUATORIAL I AM FOREVER GETTING COMPLIMENTS on my spotless complexion, but let me tell you a little secret.†   (source)
  • And on some mornings, when he read in the Apocrypha, of which he was very fond, the son of Sirach's keen-edged words would bring a delighted smile, though he also enjoyed the freedom of occasionally differing from an Apocryphal writer.†   (source)
  • He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it.†   (source)
  • 8 The most recent editor of the Greek text of The Iliad, Martin L. West, has translated this material for The Loeb Classical Library: Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer (Cambridge, Mass.†   (source)
  • Two minutes later, a flood of frightened bourgeois who were fleeing through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad brandishing his pistol and singing:— La nuit on ne voit rien, Le jour on voit tres bien, D'un ecrit apocrypha Le bourgeois s'ebouriffe, Pratiquez la vertu, Tutu, chapeau pointu!†   (source)
  • But wee are to give credit to the Canonicall Scripture, whatsoever be written in the Apocrypha.†   (source)
  • And so perhaps are some of those Books which are called Apocrypha, if left out of the Canon, not for inconformity of Doctrine with the rest, but only because they are not found in the Hebrew.†   (source)
  • And if the Books of Apocrypha (which are recommended to us by the Church, though not for Canonicall, yet for profitable Books for our instruction) may in this point be credited, the Scripture was set forth in the form wee have it in, by Esdras; as may appear by that which he himself saith, in the second book, chapt.†   (source)
  • What Books these are, is sufficiently known, without a Catalogue of them here; and they are the same that are acknowledged by St. Jerome, who holdeth the rest, namely, the Wisdome of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Judith, Tobias, the first and second of Maccabees, (though he had seen the first in Hebrew) and the third and fourth of Esdras, for Apocrypha.†   (source)
  • —The leaning of sophists towards the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity, John Eglinton detected.†   (source)
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