What does Ellen White write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "What do you write about the Apocrypha?"
Answer
The texts provided report that Ellen White described the Apocrypha in an 1850 vision as a “hidden book” that the wise of the last days should understand. A later note, however, states that the meaning of this statement is unclear and that the matter should receive little attention. LeRoy Edwin Froom also cites the Protestant view that the Apocrypha does not belong to the inspired canon.
The Apocrypha as a “hidden book”
»“I saw that the Apocrypha was the hidden book, and that the wise of these last days should understand it. I saw that the Bible was the standard book, which will judge us at the last day.”«
Note on the meaning of the statement
»“The full sense and significance of Ellen G. White’s 1850 statement is not clear. […] Our counsel would be to give the matter only minimal attention.”«
Its place in the Protestant canon
»“Only the Old Testament as Protestants have it today (though counted as either twenty-two or twenty-four books) was recognized as inspired in the Hebrew canon.”«
Original Sources (English)
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