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  1. Philip Bartelt
    Philip Bartelt
    10 mins read
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    06/30/26

    What about the Apocrypha?

    Luther neither removed the Apocrypha from the Bible nor discouraged its use. Rather, he received and preserved the ancient distinction inherited from the fathers: the Apocrypha is valuable, edifying, and worthy of reading, but it is not Holy Scripture and therefore cannot serve as the foundation of Christian doctrine.