HILLS ( The King James Bible Defended: a Space-age Defense of the Historic Christian Faith, 1956), LOUIS GAUSSEN ( The Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, 1934), to name a few. 390 see Michael Maynard, A History of the Debate over 1 John 5:7-8 ), FREDERIC NOLAN ( An Inquiry into the Integrity of the Greek Vulgate or Received Text of the New Testament, 1815), ROBERT DABNEY (“The Doctrinal Various Readings of the New Testament Greek,” 1891), THOMAS MIDDLETON ( The Doctrine of the Greek article : applied to the criticism and illustration of the New Testament, 1833), MATTHEW HENRY (Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1706), EDWARD F. The grammatical argument has been treated lightly by modern textual critics, but its importance was understood by GREGORY NAZIANZUS (Oration XXXII: Fifth Theological Oration: “On the Holy Spirit,” A.D. Carson’s The King James Version Debate ). Moreover, the words ‘that one’ ( to hen ) in verse 8 have no antecedent if verse 7 is omitted, whereas if verse 7 is retained, then the antecedent is ‘these three are one’ ( to hen )” (Strouse, A Critique of D.A. The argument that the ‘Spirit’ is personalized and therefore masculine is offset by verse 6 which is definitely referring to the personal Holy Spirit yet using the neuter gender. This is strange if the Johannine Comma is omitted, but it can be accounted for if it is retained the masculine nouns ‘Father’ and ‘word’ in verse 7 regulate the gender in the succeeding verse due to the power of attraction principle. The words ‘Spirit,’ ‘water’ and ‘blood’ are all neuters, yet they are treated as masculine in verse 8. “The omission of the Johannine Comma leaves much to be desired grammatically. Carson’s The King James Version Debate, 1980).Īnother consideration is THE GRAMMATICAL ARGUMENT. The usual formula, ‘Father, Son, and Holy Spirit’ would have been assuredly used by a forger. The Trinitarian formula, ‘Father, Word, and Holy Spirit’ is unique not only for John but for all NT writers. “The strength of forgery or interpolation is similarity and not uniqueness. The very fact that they almost never mention the fundamental issue of faith (Hebrews 11:6) or the promise of divine preservation or the Spirit of God in the context of these matters is most fearfully telling.Ĭonsider, first, THE THEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT. but it is true nonetheless that they are only men and not gods. I do not want to speak disrespectfully, for I do not despise learning (though I do despise the thing that David Otis Fuller called “scholarolatry”). They do not possess secret knowledge nor do they have secret wisdom. We must not be overawed by textual scholars. This is one of the most important verses in the Bible on the doctrine of the Trinity and one of the most important witnesses to the full Deity of Jesus Christ and for the following reasons I am convinced that 1 John 5:7 as it stands in the Greek Received Text and the King James Bible is divinely inspired Scripture. This is typical of how 1 John 5:7 is treated by textual critics.īeginning with the publication of the English Revised Version of 1881, the Johannine Comma has been omitted from practically every modern English translation, including the ASV, RSV, NASV, NIV, TEV, Living Bible, the Message, New Living Translation, the CEV, and the Holman Christian Standard Bible. Kurt and Barbara Aland had no doubt that it is inauthentic, speaking of “the impossibility of its being at all related to the original form of the text of 1 John” ( The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions, p. It would seem, in fact, that modern textual critics despise the traditional Trinitarian statement in 1 John 5:7-8 more than any other passage in the Received Text.īruce Metzger called it “spurious” ( The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, p. (The term “comma” described “a group of words isolated as a single group.”) The capitalized words, called the Johannine Comma, are omitted in the modern Greek texts and English versions. AND THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR WITNESS IN EARTH, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.” The following is excerpted from the book THE BIBLE VERSION QUESTION-ANSWER DATABAS E which is found at ġ John 5:7-8 in the King James Bible reads: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, THE FATHER, THE WORD, AND THE HOLY GHOST: AND THESE THREE ARE ONE.
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