“Until the mid-nineteenth century, most Protestants accepted the Deuterocanonical books as inspired in at least some limited sense. For example, the original version of the King James Bible, the most popular version of the Bible in English, included most of the Deuterocanonical books. And for many years in England, it was even illegal to publish a Bible without these books. ...
...Most evangelical Protestants in America are heirs of this missionary movement. Consequently, many Americans who take the Bible seriously hold a grave misunderstanding about the Old Testament. They sincerely but mistakenly believe that the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament are not a part of the Christian Bible. They are ignorant of the fact that most of the Deuterocanonical books are quoted or alluded to as Scripture by the Apostles, the Church Fathers, and even Jesus Christ Himself. “
Ummm....no. The Apocrypha, which included 3 small sections the Council of Trent did not list but which had been there, was included in the KJV. “Deuterocanonical books” is a term invented after the Council of Trent to describe the books in the Vulgate listed by Trent, although the list at Trent left a few out.
Second, most Protestants did NOT consider it scripture. (”most Protestants accepted the Deuterocanonical books as inspired in at least some limited sense.”) They were considered as good reading, but NOT scripture - a view backed by Jerome and many other Catholic scholars prior to the Council of Trent.
Third, Jesus & the Apostles NEVER used the Apocryphal books for authority. Jude quotes a book for illustration, but that book isn’t in anyone’s list of the canon. And Paul quotes a Cretan prophet, without suggesting the prophet’s writings were scripture. There were many prophets who made many prophecies that were not included in scripture.
“It is written...” appears many times in the NT, but never with the Apocryphal books following.
What does the Council of Trent have to do with the Eastern Orthodox?