This list of does not occur until at least 100 years later, and even then other books-- The … The “Apocrypha” was officially removed from the English printings of the KJV by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1885 leaving only 66 books. the very anti-Christ, devil worshipers are the sources of salvation, for the thirsty may drink deeply of the In 1880 the American Bible Society voted remove the “Apocrypha” Books from the King James Version. 137 Instances - Page 1 of 5 Expand or Limit Your Search Results: All KJV books Old Testament only New Testament only Apocrypha only (?) Perhaps one of the best kept secrets of the modern Protestant church is that the Bible used by that body is not the original King James Bible. letter of Pope St. Innocent I in 405 also officially listed these books. "with equal devotion and reverence." not exclude any books definitively; a rigid fixing of the Jewish canon may be seen as a bridge between the two. words to be found here. Prophets, and the Writings. There is no doubt that the 14 books of the Apocrypha were controversial, but it cannot be denied they were included in the original King James Bible. The King James version remains one of the greatest landmarks in the English tongue. “Let there be light.” “My brother’s keeper.” “Fight the good fight.” A number of the most well-known phrases in the English language originated not in novels, plays, or poems but in a seminal translation of the Bible, the King James Version (KJV), which was published in 1611 at the behest of King James I of England. When King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England in 1603, he was well aware that he was entering a sticky situation. The concept of the Protestant Church about the Apocrypha is virtually non-existent, with the general understanding that only the Catholic Church uses it. Martin Luther, the celebrated catalyst of the Protestant Reformation, famously took issue with the book of James.He didn’t think it expressed the “nature of the Gospel,” it appeared to contradict Paul’s statements about justification by faith, and it didn’t directly mention Christ. The translation had a marked influence on English literary style and was generally accepted as the standard English Bible from the mid-17th to the early 20th century. The of the Bible have less books than the Catholic versions. She had never heard of that book. Date: April 1996), “APOCRYPHA, that is, Books which are not to be esteemed like the Holy Scriptures, and yet which are useful and good to read.” (Luther Bible, 1534), “The books and treatises which among the Fathers of old are not reckoned to be of like authority with the other books of the Bible, neither are they found in the Canon of Hebrew.” (Coverdale Bible 1535), “The books that follow in order after the Prophets unto the New Testament, are called Apocrypha, that is, books which were not received by a common consent to be read and expounded publicly in the Church, neither yet served to prove any point of Christian religion save in so much as they had the consent of the other scriptures called canonical to confirm the same, or rather whereon they were grounded: but as books proceeding from godly men they were received to be read for the advancement and furtherance of the knowledge of history and for the instruction of godly manners: which books declare that at all times God had an especial care of His Church, and left them not utterly destitute of teachers and means to confirm them in the hope of the promised Messiah, and also witness that those calamities that God sent to his Church were according to his providence, who had both so threatened by his prophets, and so brought it to pass, for the destruction of their enemies and for the trial of his children.” (Geneva Bible, 1560, Preface). the bible through subtracting scriptures, because the people would notice. These 14 Books [There are 155,683 words in over 5,700 verses in 168 Chapters] of  the Apocrypha had been part of the King’s bible since 1611. the Old Testament under the title "Apocrypha," declaring, "These are books St. Athanasius in his Paschal Epistle (367) He separated them. Nevertheless, his action good for reading." He grouped the seven deuterocanonical King James decided to use six groups of nine. However, many Protestant versions of the Bible today will the Church's canon of Sacred Scripture after this time, the Council of time of our Lord's death and the end of the first century. He agreed with that ancient evaluation. They did not integrate it into the Old … remember that almighty God never handed anyone a complete Bible and said, Reproduced by permission. King James insisted on the removal of certain books because they went against the desires of the Church of England for morality (i.e. . and I John); other canonical books (Matthew, Mark, Luke, Acts, rest of historians speculate that Luther was prepared to drop what he called the It always included, though with varying degrees of recognition, the so-called Apocrypha or Deutero-canonical books. (Recent studies The use made of the Apocrypha by Tertullian, Hippolytus, Cyprian and Clement of Alexandria is too frequent for detailed references to be necessary” (Early Christian Doctrines, J. Kelly), “In 405 Pope Innocent I embodied a list of canonical books in a letter addressed to Exsuperius, bishop of Toulouse; it too included the Apocrypha.