re deuterocanonicals esp sirach michael siemon writes furthermore it is inaccurate to say that the reformers threw out these books basically they just placed them in a secondary status as jerome had already done but with the additional warning that doctrine should not be based on citations from these alone protestants love to play up jerome for all he is worth they should remeber that after the decree of pope st damsus i jerome did not hesitate in accpeting the deuteroncanon and quoted them as scripture in his later writings and as i have already pointed out in a previous letter on this subject the catholic church has accepted the deuterocanon from the beginning and the protestants in the s all of a sudden revived the old theory of some condemned by pope council and church that the deuterocanon were not inspired again why must the church of jesus christ adopt the canon of the unbelieving jews drawn up in jamnia in ad in countering the christian use of the septuagint andy byler
