 Apocrypha as uninspired, although some have accepted them as useful for historical information or for "example of life and instruction of manners," but not "to establish any doctrine...  CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Page 3331901Full view - About this book
 | 1888 - 854 pages
...Prayer of Manasses) 'as sacred and canonical.' Luther held them 'not APOCRYPHA APOLLINARIS WATER 335 equal to Holy Scripture, but as good and useful for...and instruction of manners,' but not 'to establish anv doctrine ; ' but many of the parts of the Apocrypha read as lessons were excluded from the lectionary... | |
 | 1888 - 878 pages
...Prayer of Manasses) ' as sacred and canonical.' Luther held them ' not APOCRYPHA APOLLINARIS WATER 335 equal to Holy Scripture, but as good and useful for...' for example of life and instruction of manners,' hut not ' to establish any doctrine ; ' but many of the parts of the Apocrypha read as lessons were... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1889 - 332 pages
...the Palestinian canon and not the Alexandrian. According to the sixth article, the apocryphal books are to be read for example of life and instruction of manners, but are not to be applied to establish any doctrine. The Eeformed F Churches of the Continent advocate... | |
 | 1890 - 664 pages
...which is the Hebrew, and rejected the deutero-canonical as of inspired authority, but held them to be u read for example of life and instruction of manners, but not to establish any doctrine." This church includes in this class all of the above books except III. Maccabees, but no lessons are... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1890 - 394 pages
...', and were read in the Christian Church (Ecclesia), (though not in the Synagogues of the Jews,) " for example of life and instruction of manners, but not to establish any doctrine* ;" and are by some authors, in a restricted sense, sometimes even called Canonical2, as being found... | |
 | Benjamin Whitehead - 1892 - 352 pages
...a collection of sacred books written in the 400 years preceding Christ. "The Church doth read them for example of life and instruction of manners, but not to establish any doctrine " (c). APOSTASY, a total renunciation of Christianity by embracing either a false religion or no religion... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1897 - 636 pages
...bible but left in the Apocrypha which, according to Article VI. of the Church of England, " she doth read for example of life and instruction of manners " (?'•, but not to establish any doctrine. + Cornelius a Lapidf, v. 248. J EccJesiastfs, xliii. The above quotations are taken from De Mirville's... | |
 | 1897 - 856 pages
...Dragon, which arc read for the reasons quoted from St. Jerome, in the Sixth Article of Religion, viz., 'for example of life and instruction of manners,' but not ' to establish any doctrine.' The second lessons are from the New Testament, which is read through three times in the year — that... | |
 | Clara Erskine Clement Waters - 1900 - 378 pages
...Daniel as it stands in Protestant Bibles. The Church of England considers the apocryphal books as useful to be " read for example of life and instruction of manners, but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrines." They are wholly rejected by the dissenting... | |
 | Henry Wheeler - 1908 - 418 pages
...Maccabees, the Second Book of Maccabees. The English Reformers in their Article accepted these books "to be read for example of life and instruction of manners, but not to be applied to establish any doctrine." They added also to the list three which the Council of 1 Clement... | |
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