1 John 5:7–8
The heavenly witnesses, and the “three that bear witness in earth” set over against them, are read in the Old Latin and the Latin Vulgate, and Cyprian writes about AD 251 that “it is written” of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, “And these three are one.” Latin writers quote the verse from the fourth century on, and in 484 some 460 bishops of North Africa confessed it as Scripture before an Arian king. It is read in Greek manuscripts too, and written in the margins of others.
The King James Bible
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For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
8
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Read 1 John 5
ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ὁ πατήρ ὁ λόγος καὶ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσιν καὶ τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες ἐν τῇ γῇ
en tō ouranō ho patēr ho logos kai to hagion pneuma kai houtoi hoi treis hen eisin kai treis eisin hoi marturountes en tē gē
Greek Manuscripts
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Added in the margin by a later hand.Checked against: Scrivener 1894
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Greek and Latin side by side.Checked against: Scrivener 1894
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Checked against: Scrivener 1894
Early Translations
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Checked against: Scrivener 1894
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Vulgate: Codex Cavensis vg cavMost later Vulgate manuscripts read it, as does the Clementine Vulgate (1592).Checked against: Scrivener 1894
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Vulgate: Codex Toletanus vg tolChecked against: Scrivener 1894
Church Fathers
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Quotes part of it
“And again it is written of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, ‘And these three are one.’”
Only verse 7 names the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; verse 8 names the spirit, the water, and the blood.Checked against: ANF 5 -
Cited to prove the Trinity before an Arian king.Checked against: Scrivener 1894
Printed Greek Texts with This Reading
- Textus Receptus · The Greek text the KJV was translated from, as Scrivener printed it (1894)
Quotations from the Ante-Nicene and Nicene Fathers translations. Edition data from the Translators Amalgamated Greek NT, STEPBible.org (CC BY). About these texts and witnesses.
