3 hours ago, Bill W said:

Examples of apocryphal in a sentence: 

• "He never quoted from the apocryphal books on a single occasion."
• "Rose refers to the apocryphal book, Wisdom of Solomon, as ‘scripture’."
• "For example, what is the position of the apocryphal writings?"
• "Some are even considered heretical, much like apocryphal books of the Bible."
• "Out of the many remarks were attributed to him, most of them probably apocryphal"
• "Have you read the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas"
• "Many baseball reporters claim the story is apocryphal, but others insist on its verity."
• "Other stories that sound apocryphal are unfortunately true."

 

 

 

I was drawn to the fact that only three of the eight quotes above were not direct biblical references. Then my attention was drawn to "but others insist on its verity". Now I can't say that verity is a word I come across regularly, or even occasionally, and in that context, in modern usage, I would expect to see veracity used instead.

Of course I went searching and discovered that verity is the translation of 'emeth, "truth," "stedfastness" (Psalms 111:7, "The works of his hands are verity and judgment," the American Standard Revised Version "truth and justice," the English Revised Version "truth and judgment"); and of aletheia, "truth," "reality," "certainty" (1 Timothy 2:7), "faith and verity," the Revised Version (British and American) "faith and truth."

Verity is also related to the biblical verily. And so verily I say unto you go forth and use apocryphal today and in your posts to GA.