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The King James Apocrypha (1611)
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The books that sat between the Old and New Testaments in the 1611 Bible, then were quietly dropped from most printings. Here they are in the same English, with their own stories of angels, demons and sky armies.
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PersonHeliodorusA stone inscription found in Israel preserves a real letter addressed to Heliodorus, a king's minister. In the Apocrypha, the same man marches into the Jerusalem Temple to seize its treasury and is beaten by a horse with a terrible rider and two strong young men. The history is real. What does the story say happened?BeingCherubimForget the chubby babies. The first angelic beings in the Bible are armed security, posted at the gate of Eden with a flaming sword that turned every way, to guard the road to the tree of life. Later, God is said to ride one. What were the cherubim really supposed to be?
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