What books did Luther consider including?

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=in_servitude;10016555]Please accept my apology. I was careless in my wording.
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I’m often a member of that club. :o No problem.
Yes, I do get that the deuteros were included them in Luther’s publications - but they were set off, I think, as being not of the Old or New Testament.
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Luther set them between the Ot and NT, which I have no problem with, considering the historic debate about them. as is often pointed out, scripture didn’t come with a table of context. 😃
Previously, you JonNC said:
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I’m asking about this once again because there is something that I have not connected yet, and I get the sense that once I put the right 2 and 2 together, I’ll have a big ah-ha! moment. So, please be patient with me on this.
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You are saying that there was a “western canon” prior to Luther’s work on discerning sacred scripture? I’m trying to understand where this comes from, especially in light of the Florence Council.
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Well, yes, though not defined as such by the universal Church. that’s why there are varying canons, even before the Reformation. And Florence, Hippo, Carthage, etc, did not end the debate about certain books in the western Church. This is my point, Luther was not novel either in his questions about these books, or in his consideration of them to be, as you said before, “not on a par” with the attested books.
Peace!
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And also with you.

Jon
 
JonNC said:
Well, yes, though not defined as such by the universal Church. that’s why there are varying canons, even before the Reformation. And Florence, Hippo, Carthage, etc, did not end the debate about certain books in the western Church. This is my point, Luther was not novel either in his questions about these books, or in his consideration of them to be, as you said before, “not on a par” with the attested books.
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Hey Jon,

Do you have a list of the various cannons that were around in the 1400-1500 time frame? Or, perhaps a good source to list all those varying canons? I would greatly appreciate that.

Thanks for all the info!!
 
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. . . .Or, where there other books that are not currently in the Catholic bible that Luther considered, but eventually rejected anyway. . . . .
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Luther wrote Prefaces for Books in his German Bible. It’s an interesting read.

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**Did Luther consider James Scripture? A look at the preface to James and Jude
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**WORKS OF MARTIN LUTHER -PREFACES TO THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
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Example:

Preface to the Revelation of Saint John (2) 1522 FT510

“. . .it to be neither apostolic nor prophetic. . .”

“. . . .I think of it almost as I do of the Fourth Book of Esdras, and can nohow detect that the Holy Spirit produced it. . . .”

“. . . .let everyone think of it as his own spirit gives him to think. My spirit cannot fit itself into this book. . . .”

Ironically, Luther spoke more favorably about the Apocrypha than he did about James, Jude, and Revelation.

Anna
 
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