spunkets:
You are correct, Protestants reject the Deuterocanonicals but now you all are being forced to realize that your polemics that use to be tossed at Catholics, and Eastern Orthodox for that matter, although you all did not go aftr them, that the Catholic Church “added the 7 Deuterocanonicals at the Council of Trent in 1563” is bull.
Even some of the Protestants in this thread are now forced to concede that the OT Canon of 46 books in the Catholic Bible was the position in the Roman Church by the end of the 4th century, and the same OT canon of the Catholic Church is in the OT canon of the Eastern Orthodox Church, although they have 3 more Deuterocanonicals, that the Catholics do not have.
In closing, it was the Protestants of the 16th century that were the “radicals” who departed from Apostolic Tradition and are the “usurpers” with respect to their ideas of what the OT canon should be for Christendom.
16th Century:
"Here we close our commentaries on the historical books of the Old Testament. For the rest (that is, Judith, Tobit, and the books of Maccabees) are counted by St Jerome out of the canonical books, and are placed amongst the Apocrypha, along with Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus, as is plain from the Prologus Galeatus. Nor be thou disturbed, like a raw scholar, if thou shouldest find anywhere, either in the sacred councils or the sacred doctors, these books reckoned as canonical. For the words as well of councils as of doctors are to be reduced to the correction of Jerome. Now, according to his judgment, in the epistle to the bishops Chromatius and Heliodorus, these books (and any other like books in the canon of the bible) are not canonical, that is, not in the nature of a rule for confirming matters of faith. Yet, they may be called canonical, that is, in the nature of a rule for the edification of the faithful, as being received and authorised in the canon of the bible for that purpose. By the help of this distinction thou mayest see thy way clearly through that which Augustine says, and what is written in the provincial council of Carthage.
Cardinal Caietan (Jacob Thomas de Vio), Commentary on all the Authentic Historical Books of the Old Tesdtament, In ult. Cap., Esther. Taken from A Disputation on Holy Scripture by William Whitaker (Cambridge: University, 1849), p. 48
Cordially,