Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
Apocrypha
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Apocrypha
Books not admitted into the sacred canon, being either spurious, or at least not acknowledged to be divine. The word Apocrypha is of Greek origin, and is either derived from the words ἀπὸ τῆς κρύπτῆς, because the books in question were removed _from the crypt_, chest, ark, or other receptacle in which the sacred books were deposited whose authority was never doubted, or more probably from the verb ἀποκρύπτω, _to hide_ or _conceal_,… Apocrypha is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “hidden.” This unified study connects 4 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
APOCRYPHA
books not admitted into the sacred canon, being either spurious, or at least not acknowledged to be divine. The word Apocrypha is of Greek origin, and is either derived from the words ἀπὸ τῆς κρύπτῆς, because the books in question were removed _from the crypt_, chest, ark, or other receptacle in which the sacred books were deposited whose authority was never doubted, or more probably from the verb ἀποκρύπτω, _to hide_ or _conceal_, because they were concealed from the generality of readers, their authority not being recognised by the church, and because they are books which are destitute of proper testimonials, their original being obscure, their authors unknown, and their character either…
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Apocrypha
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- Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
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