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that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost and these three are one.” However, the manuscript evidence for this reading is sufficiently weak that modern translations rightly omit it from the text of 1 John.”
A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament by F. Scrivener, Cambridge, 1883, Third Edition, page 654. “We need not hesitate to declare our conviction that the disputed words [or the non-inspired Catholic Trinitarian Creed 1 John 5:7] were not written by St. John: that they were originally brought into Latin copies in Africa [Alexandria Egypt] from the margin, were they had been placed as a pious and [Trinitarian] orthodox gloss on verse 8: that from the Latin they crept into two or three late Greek codices, and thence into the printed Greek text, a place to which they had no rightful claim,”
The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible," Vol. 4, p.711, Abingdon Press. "The text about the three heavenly witnesses (I John 5:7 KJV) is not an authentic part of the New Testament."
The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. 4, p. 871, Abingdon Press. "1 John 5:7 in the KJV reads: 'There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one' but this is an interpolation of which there is no trace before the late fourth century."
The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary Edited by Allen C. Myers, p. 1020. "1 John 5:7 in the Textus Receptus (represented in the KJV) makes it appear that John had arrived at the doctrine of the trinity in explicit form ('the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost'), [This “explicit form” did not happen until 381 AD almost 300 years after John was dead.] but this text is clearly an interpolation since no genuine Greek manuscript contains it"
The Wycliffe Bible Commentary Edited by Dr. Charles F. Pfeiffer and Dr. Everett F. Harrison, 1962, page 1477. “The text of this verse should read, Because there are three that bear record. [The three that bear record Spirit water and Blood which are witnesses or symbols of Salvation and not a text of Three Divine Persons or gods.] The remainder of the verse is spurious. Not a single manuscript contains the trinitarian addition before the fourteenth century, and the verse is never quoted in the (many) controversies over the Trinity in the first 450 years of the church era.”
Believer’s Bible Commentary 1995, William Mac Donald, page 2323. “It always disturbs some devout [Trinitarian] Christians to learn that parts of Verses (1 John 5:) 7, 8, as found in the KJV and NKJV, are actually found in only a handful of (late Catholic) Greek manuscripts of the NT.”
Believer’s Bible Commentary 1995, William Mac Donald, page 2326. “1 John 5:7-8 Erasmas * added these words to later editions of his Greek NT under pressure from the Pope [they occur in the Official Roman Catholic Latin Bible, the Vulgate]. Only four very Late Greek Mss. [Manuscripts] have these words, so it is unsafe to use them.”
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