Wheres the rest of your BIBLE?????? It is hard to pin point the exact date where the King James Bible, so called, no longer contained the Apocrypha. It is clear that later unauthorized editions of the KJV removed the Apocrypha appendix, but they continued to include cross-references to the Apocrypha until they too (like the Geneva Bible) were removed as well. Why were they removed? Was it do to over-crowded margins? The Anglican scholar William H. Daubney points out the obvious: “These objectionable omissions [of the cross-references] were made after the custom arose of publishing Bibles without the Apocrypha. These apparently profess to be what they are not, entire copies of the Authorized Version … Plainly, the references to the Apocrypha told an inconvenient tale of the use which the Church intended should be made of it; so, either from dissenting influence without, or from prejudice within the Church, these references disappeared from the margin.” [The Use of the Apocrypha In the Christian Church (London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1900), 17] What was the inconvenient tale these cross-references told? They showed that the so-called Apocrypha actually plays a much greater role that most modern Protestants are willing to admit. Moreover, the cross-references showed that the church believed that knowledge of the so-called Apocrypha and their use in the New Testament benefited Christians who wished to understand the Bible. Sadly today, many Protestants use the King James Bible have been handed on to them in an unaltered and uncompromised form. The reality is that its contents had undergone several substantial changes beginning with Martin Luthers gathering together the Deuterocanon and placing it in an Apocrypha appendix and later when that appendix (and its cross-references) were removed altogether from Protestant Bibles.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:11:58 +0000
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