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Protocanonical
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Referring to those books of the Old Testament whose canonicity was never questioned. The term was probably first used by Sixtus of Siena in the 16th century to distinguish the accepted books of the Bible from the deuterocanonical writings, whose divinely inspired character had been for a time disputed.
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Entry for 'Protocanonical'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/p/protocanonical.html. 1910.
Entry for 'Protocanonical'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/p/protocanonical.html. 1910.
