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Apocrypha, the

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A literature of sixteen books composed by Jews, after the close of the Hebrew canon, which though without the unction of the prophetic books of the canon, are instinct, for most part, with the wisdom which rests on the fear of God and loyalty to His law. The word Apocrypha means hidden writing, and it was given to it by the Jews to distinguish it from the books which they accepted as canonical.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Apocrypha, the'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​a/apocrypha-the.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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