Sample Sentences forApocrypha (auto-selected)
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Since 1826, most protestant Bibles have excluded the Apocrypha.Apocrypha = Old Testament books accepted by Catholics and Orthodox Christians, but excluded from Hebrew and Protestant Bibles
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The Russian Orthodox church accepts the Apocrypha as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status as the Roman Catholic church.Apocrypha = books which were included in the Roman Catholic version of the Old Testament but not accepted in the Hebrew or Protestant Bibles
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That is one pet project of the Reverend's: getting other Baptists to swallow the Apocrypha.† (source)
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And he laughed, and said that strictly speaking it was not, as the story was in the Apocrypha.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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On the other hand, the Apocrypha are included in the old Greek translation of the Bible.† (source)
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And yet one grows up with all kinds of apocrypha and lore, yes?† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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—The leaning of sophists towards the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity, John Eglinton detected.† (source)
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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)
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This morning he was preaching on Bel in the temple, from the Apocrypha.† (source)
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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)
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I've heard about the books of the Apocrypha but have never read them.† (source)
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