Protocanonical


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Pro`to`ca`non´ic`al


a.1.Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; - opposed to deutero-canonical.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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In the 16th century Pope Sixtus divided the Old Testament into protocanonical and deuterocanonical works, proto meaning those works that came before and deutero meaning there that are secondary to the canon.
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