Maybe the word “scripture” had a broader meaning in those days?
“Maybe the word “scripture” had a broader meaning in those days?”
As did the word “canonical,” as Catejan makes clear. For example, at the ecumenical council of Trullo (I might be mispelling that name, going by memory) they called a vast array of books canonical, well and above what Rome accepts today. Yet people after that time period still differentiated in the use and value between the standard Old and New Testament and what we know today as the apocrypha, with no apparent feeling of contradiction.