Word: apocrypha
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Bibles may be imported into the U. S. without payment of customs duties. Other books are taxed at the rate of 15%. In 1924 Lincoln MacVeagh, president of the Dial Press, brought one copy of the Apocrypha of the Nonesuch Bible to the U. S. from England and was taxed thereon 15%. Saying that the books of the Apocrypha were parts of the Bible, Mr. MacVeagh sued the U. S. to get back his money...
Last week the court refused to give this to Mr. MacVeagh. The reasons for the refusal were based upon the nature of the Apocrypha, or lost books, of the Bible. Certain of these, incorporated into the Old Testament by errant Hebrews and written down in the Greek Septuagint which is otherwise merely a translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, were included by St. Jerome in his Latin Vulgate. Theologians in the middle ages questioned the authenticity of the Apocrypha which St. Jerome had accepted. The Council of Trent (1545-63) established their repute, since which time they have remained...
...firm has a perfect right to sell the Apocrypha if they so desire, but no one has a right to suggest to the public that they are something hitherto unknown. I wonder that you would permit such misleading statements to be made in your advertising columns...
Professor Copeland will give his second reading of the year in the dining room of the Union tonight at 9 o'clock. He will read, with an occasional comment, from the Old Testament and the New, and from the Apocrypha in the King James version of the Bible. The doors will be closed punctually at five minutes past the hour...
Professor Copeland will read tomorrow night at 9 o'clock in the dining room of the Union. The reading will be from the King James version of the Bible, with an occasional brief comment from the Old and the New Testaments and the Apocrypha. The doors will be closed punctually at five minutes past the hour...