The More You Know…. Apocrypha Insights
September 18th, 2012
Did you know that before the English speaking Lutheran church “lost” the Apocrypha in the Bibles it used, the Apocrypha was a very natural part of the Lutheran Church’s life together?
For example….
- Our Lutheran Church had Apocrypha readings in our German-language lectionaries.
- We celebrated saints from the Apocrypha in our saint-day calendars.
- The first Missouri Synod Small Catechism with Explanation published was the Dietrich Catechism.
- Johann Conrad Dietrich (1575-1639), who compiled the explanation for that catechism, preached an entire series during the Sunday Divine Services from the Apocrypha book of Wisdom. Imagine that!
- Further, every German Bible ever printed by Concordia Publishing House had the Apocrypha in it.
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Now that the hard copy, regular print edition is being published, will we have long to wait for the large print and kindle editions?
Large print? No plans for one.
Kindle? By year end, if not sooner.
Just received my copy yesterday in the mail. Thanks CPH for your excellent work. I will be sure to get the word out in our local church and elsewhere.