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The heavenly witnesses as originally a margin note?
A very difficult theory, without any real evidence, a symptom of text-crit confirmation bias.
The Theory:
A random Latin scribe (call him Clunk the Interpolater)
a) places in a note a beautiful syntactic parallelism
b) he improves the three witnesses by adding that they are earthly witnesses.
The New Verse
c) is totally Johannine including the Word as in John 1:1 1:14 and Rev 19:13
d) fixes a Greek gender solecism when translated over from the Latin! Amazing
e) supplies the “witness of God” referred to in verse nine
f) breaks up a wooden redundancy from verse six to the three witnesses
Then, this beautifully crafted, majestic new verse is pulled in neatly to the text, improving John. And is noted by Jerome in his Vulgate Prologue and is used by 400 orthodox, as clearer than the light, contra the ‘Arians’ (homoians) in the Council of Carthage in AD 484.
And all this margin-to-text creation happens before Cyprian utilizes the verse twice, applying “the three are one” to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Myths of Modern “Scientific” Textusl Criticism
The heavenly witnesses as originally a margin note?
A very difficult theory, without any real evidence, a symptom of text-crit confirmation bias.
The Theory:
A random Latin scribe (call him Clunk the Interpolater)
a) places in a note a beautiful syntactic parallelism
b) he improves the three witnesses by adding that they are earthly witnesses.
The New Verse
c) is totally Johannine including the Word as in John 1:1 1:14 and Rev 19:13
d) fixes a Greek gender solecism when translated over from the Latin! Amazing
e) supplies the “witness of God” referred to in verse nine
f) breaks up a wooden redundancy from verse six to the three witnesses
Then, this beautifully crafted, majestic new verse is pulled in neatly to the text, improving John. And is noted by Jerome in his Vulgate Prologue and is used by 400 orthodox, as clearer than the light, contra the ‘Arians’ (homoians) in the Council of Carthage in AD 484.
And all this margin-to-text creation happens before Cyprian utilizes the verse twice, applying “the three are one” to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Myths of Modern “Scientific” Textusl Criticism
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