the earliest copies of the LXX available for study. But in the Apostolic Age the books were all on scrolls, and the earliest remaining copies of the LXX were made after they began to be bound in codex form (as leaves in a book). There is no way to establish that the Apocrypha was part of the LXX prior to the fourth century. Even if it could be so established, the inclusion of the Apocrypha in such an important translation as the LXX would still be insufficient to elevate them to the level of canonical