Steven Avery
Administrator
The constant contra refrain."But you have no problem with rejecting similar (and earlier) evidence for the Comma Johanneum."
Brandpluckt
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/bibleversiondiscussionboard/the-margin-notes-of-the-oxford-longprimer-t6080-s60.html
And one of the dumbest textual comments possible.
In addition to the powerful Old Latin and Vulgate Latin ms. evidences, and Greek ECW uses, we have, to start:
Where do the analogy verses have anything like these evidences?Cyprian quotes from the heavenly witnesses, c. 250 AD
Jerome tells us that it was being dropped from the text.
400+ orthodox Christians specifically affirm the Johannine text to the Arians under Hunneric at the Council of Carthage in 484 AD.
the text without the heavenly witnesses is a bald solecism
various additional grammatical, internal and stylistic evidences affirm the heavenly witnesses
the scriptural formulation became a part of creedal formulation
Nowhere.
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To be fair, the specific conversation here was a gentleman defending Acts 8:37 and not defending the heavenly witnesses. An unusual hybrid.
So I will add here quotes that use specifically compare the heavenly witnesses to low-Greek ms. rejection.