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经外书;伪经;可疑文件

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Apocrypha \A*poc"ry*pha\, n. pl., but often used as sing. with
   pl. {Apocryphas}. [L. apocryphus apocryphal, Gr. ? hidden,
   spurious, fr. ? to hide; ? from + ? to hide.]
   1. Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or
      authority; -- formerly used also adjectively. [Obs.]
      --Locke.

   2. Specif.: Certain writings which are received by some
      Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures,
      but are rejected by others.

   Note: Fourteen such writings, or books, formed part of the
         Septuagint, but not of the Hebrew canon recognized by
         the Jews of Palestine. The Council of Trent included
         all but three of these in the canon of inspired books
         having equal authority. The German and English
         Reformers grouped them in their Bibles under the title
         Apocrypha, as not having dogmatic authority, but being
         profitable for instruction. The Apocrypha is now
         commonly ?mitted from the King James's Bible.

资料来源 : WordNet®

Apocrypha
     n : 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate
         (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and
         Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian
         churches (except the Coptic church) accept all these
         books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox church accepts
         these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them
         the same status