The Question of the Apocrypha included in early KJV Bibles

[Dylan569]

The original 1611 King James Version Bible is available online:

1611 The Authorized King James Bible : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

1611 The Authorized King James Bible

archive.org

THE HOLY BIBLE
Containing the Old Testament,
AND THE NEW
page 2 in the pdf reader

Robert Barker Printer to the King
ANNO DOM. 1611

APOCRYPHA - I ESDRAS
page 1006 in the pdf reader

THE NEW Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
page 1218 in the pdf reader

It should be noticed that the title on page 2 indicates it is the Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New. No mention of the apocrypha here. Yet, between the Old Testament and the New Testament, on page 1006, you find the KJV Apocrypha.

While the 1611 KJV Bible includes the Apocrypha as printed between the Old and New Testments, on the page 2, the Title Page under "THE HOLY BIBLE", only the Old and New Testaments are listed. This seems to make clear the KJV translators did not consider the Apocrypha as Canonical, but useful.

 

[MedicBravo]

The original 1611 King James Version Bible is available online:

1611 The Authorized King James Bible : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

1611 The Authorized King James Bible

archive.org

THE HOLY BIBLE
Containing the Old Testament,
AND THE NEW
page 2 in the pdf reader

Robert Barker Printer to the King
ANNO DOM. 1611

APOCRYPHA - I ESDRAS
page 1006 in the pdf reader

THE NEW Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
page 1218 in the pdf reader

It should be noticed that the title on page 2 indicates it is the Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New. No mention of the apocrypha here. Yet, between the Old Testament and the New Testament, on page 1006, you find the KJV Apocrypha.

While the 1611 KJV Bible includes the Apocrypha as printed between the Old and New Testments, on the page 2, the Title Page under "THE HOLY BIBLE", only the Old and New Testaments are listed. This seems to make clear the KJV translators did not consider the Apocrypha as Canonical, but useful.

I agree.
I've never seen a Bible with it included.
If God had wanted it to be in the Bible, there'd only be Catholics. I'm not going to entertain a "What if" that will never happen.

Jesus explained how to get to Heaven and one simple word: "Obey".
No amount of works or list is enough to earn salvation and Heaven. It can ONLY be given by Jesus.

 

[Dylan569]

M. B. I'm not sure you understood my post. While the KJV translators did not consider the Apocrypha canonical, they had it printed in the early Bibles between Malachi and Matthew; between the Testaments. That is why I posted the link so folks can see for themselves what the original KJV bibles looked like.