<P> The preface to the Apocrypha in the Geneva Bible explained that while these books `` were not received by a common consent to be read and expounded publicly in the Church , '' and did not serve `` to prove any point of Christian religion save in so much as they had the consent of the other scriptures called canonical to confirm the same , '' nonetheless , `` as books proceeding from godly men they were received to be read for the advancement and furtherance of the knowledge of history and for the instruction of godly manners . '' Later , during the English Civil War , the Westminster Confession of 1647 excluded the Apocrypha from the canon and made no recommendation of the Apocrypha above `` other human writings '' , and this attitude towards the Apocrypha is represented by the decision of the British and Foreign Bible Society in the early 19th century not to print it ( see below ) . Today , `` English Bibles with the Apocrypha are becoming more popular again '' and they are often printed as intertestamental books . </P>
<P> The preface to the Apocrypha in the Geneva Bible explained that while these books `` were not received by a common consent to be read and expounded publicly in the Church , '' and did not serve `` to prove any point of Christian religion save in so much as they had the consent of the other scriptures called canonical to confirm the same , '' nonetheless , `` as books proceeding from godly men they were received to be read for the advancement and furtherance of the knowledge of history and for the instruction of godly manners . '' Later , during the English Civil War , the Westminster Confession of 1647 excluded the Apocrypha from the canon and made no recommendation of the Apocrypha above `` other human writings '' , and this attitude towards the Apocrypha is represented by the decision of the British and Foreign Bible Society in the early 19th century not to print it ( see below ) . Today , `` English Bibles with the Apocrypha are becoming more popular again '' and they are often printed as intertestamental books . </P>
when was the apocrypha removed from the bible
when was the apocrypha removed from the bible
1647
1647