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Johannine Comma
Interpolated phrase in verses 5:7–8 of 1 John
Johannine Comma
The Johannine Comma (Latin: Comma Johanneum) is a phrase (comma) in verses 5:7–8 of the First Epistle of John, which is seen as an interpolation in the Epistle of John according to modern textual criticism. The text in the King James Version of the Bible reads: 7For there are three that beare record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that beare witnesse in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and these three agree in one. In the Greek Textus Receptus (TR), the comma reads thus:ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ πατήρ, ὁ λόγος, καὶ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα, καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσι. καὶ τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες ἐν τῇ γῇ.It became a touchpoint for the Christian theological debate over the doctrine of the Trinity from the early church councils to the Catholic and Protestant disputes in the early modern period. The words "in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one" (KJV) found in older translations at 1 John...
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