Page 58 - Countering Trinitarian Arguments With Historical Reference

“...Thus also the true Stone, our Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation of all faith. And on Him, on (this) Stone faith is based. And resting on faith all the structure rises until it is completed. For it is the foundation that is the beginning of all the building. For when anyone is brought nigh unto faith, it is laid for him upon the Stone, that is our Lord Jesus Christ...And in that I have called Christ the Stone, I have not spoken my own thought, but the Prophets beforehand called Him the Stone...And again Daniel also spoke concerning this stone which is Christ. For he said: 'The stone was cut out from the mountain, not by hands, and it smote the image, and the whole earth was filled with it.' This he showed beforehand with regard to Christ that the whole earth shall be filled with Him. For lo! by the faith of Christ are all the ends of the earth filled, as David said: 'The sound of the Gospel of Christ has gone forth into all the earth.' And again when He sent forth His apostles He spake thus to them: 'Go forth, make disciples of all nations and they will believe on Me.' And again the Prophet Zechariah also prophesied about the stone which is Christ. For he said: 'I saw a chief stone of equality and of love.'...And again the Apostle has commented for us upon this building and upon the foundation; for he said thus: 'No man can lay another foundation than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.'...”
Aphraates, Aphrahat The Persian Sage, Demonstrations, Demonstration I.--Of Faith (8)In: Philip Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1956, Vol XIII, Aphrahat, Select Demonstrations, Demonstration I.2-6, 8 ,13,19. Aphraates... wrote between 337 and 345. “The words 'Make disciples of all nations, and they shall believe in me' appear to be a gloss of the Eusebian reading 'in my name.' But in any case, they preclude the textus receptus with its injunction to baptize in the triune name.
Were the writing of Aphraates an isolated fact, we might regard it as a loose citation, but in the presence of the Eusebian and Justinian texts, this is impossible (Conybeare)”
Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. i, p 352, quoting De Rebaptismate 6.7
"The anonymous author of De Rebaptismate in the third century...dwells at length on 'the
power in the name of Jesus invoked upon a man in baptism' "
At least two New Testament ancient texts have been found that make no mention of any Trinitarian formula in Mt. 28:19: "Go forth into all the world and teach all the nations in my name in every place." (Matthew 28:19 as cited in: E. Budge, Miscellaneous Coptic Texts, 1915, pp. 58 ff., 628 and 636). And: "Go and teach them to carry out all the things which I have commanded you forever." (Matthew 28:19. On page 192 we find Shem- Tob and the Short Ending of Matthew “Go, make disciples of all the nations in my name, teaching them to keep all things which I have commanded you.” This was the original text in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, 1995 translated by George Howard from Shem Tob's, Evan Bohan.
Also see the Power New Testament 3rd Edition 2004 by William J. Morford, page 49. Also see page 385, note the Glossary on Matthew 28:19, the Trinitarian phrase is an addition to the original text.
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