Synonym: Apocrypha. Similar words: apocryphal, gryphon, crypt, cryptic, encrypt, decrypt, cryptical, cryptogram. Meaning: [ə'pɒkrɪfə] n. 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status.
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1. Although New Testament apocrypha go into these details, some quite extensively.
2. Some of the tales were the apocrypha of his enemies, others Mitchell never doubted to be true.
3. Books worthy of reading: Old Testament apocrypha, Shepherd, Didache.
4. Most of the prophetical Apocrypha are apocalyptic in form.
5. In the Apocrypha , a captive in Babylon who was falsely accused of adultery and was rescued by Daniel.
6. We call those the Apocrypha, "the hidden writings," is what it means. Yes,sir?
7. Lilith herself appears only in Jewish apocrypha texts-- she is in neither the Torah or the Bible.
8. Why do you give me this tainted Apocrypha , this thousandth copy, this inept falsification?
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9. These books, therefore, stand in the relation of Apocrypha to the Jewish canon.
10. When people talk about The Apocrypha that's published in a modern Bible, they're talking about that Jewish literature that survived in Greek mainly.
11. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bible includes additional Jewish writings called the Apocrypha.
12. There is a section on the problem of the continued use of the apocrypha in his district.
13. And yet there need be no hesitation in relegating the Fourth Book of Esdras to the ranks of the apocrypha.
14. But they had several other books that we now call the Apocrypha, such as Judith or Tobit or the 1 and 2 Maccabees.
15. The history of Valentine's Day and its patron saint, is shrouded in mystery and apocrypha , and we do love mystery and apocrypha here.
16. When you buy your bible,if you buy the one I ordered, it's called the New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha.
17. Esdras is the first two books of the old testament apocrypha.
18. Sometimes people will also use this word "apocrypha" for what they call something like New Testament apocrypha or early Christian apocrypha.
19. It is not found in the Hebrew Bible and is included in the Apocrypha by Protestants.
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