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Listen to Jeffrey Riddle .. does he use Boyd?

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A Case For the Authenticity of 1st John 5:7-8

A Case For the Authenticity of 1st John 5:7-8 Rooted in Biblical Exegesis
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https://web.archive.org/web/2010122...academics/wfps/papers/Gnomon and Chiasmus.pdf
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Around 1740 Johann Albrecht Bengel urged New Testament ...

Around 1740 Johann Albrecht Bengel urged New Testament ...
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JOHN ALBERT BENGEL’S GNOMON AND “CHIASMUS”
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Johann A. Bengel, Gnomon Novi Testamenti (Tübingen, 1742). Johann A. Bengel, Η ΚΑΙΝΗ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ (Tübingen, 1734). William L.Blackley and James Hawes, The Critical English Testament (London: Alexander Strahan, 1866). Thomas Boys, Tactica Sacra, (London, 1824). John Breck, The Shape of Biblical Language (Crestwood, NJ: SVSP, 1994). David A. Dorsey, The Literary Structure of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999). Andrew R. Fausset, ed., Gnomon of the New Testament (Edinburgh: T.&T. Clark, 1858). John Forbes, Symmetrical Structure of Scripture (Edinburgh, 1854). John Jebb, Sacred Literature (London, 1820). Luke Timothy Johnson, The Gospel of Luke (Daniel H. Harrington, ed., Sacra Pagina Series [Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1991]). Charleton T. Lewis, and Marvin R. Vincent, John Albert Bengel’s Gnomon of the New Testament (Philadelphia: Perkinpine & Higgins, 1860). Charleton T. Lewis, and Marvin R. Vincent, New Testa
 
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Steven Avery

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Neither Johann Albrecht Bengel nor John Wesley identified a chiasm within 1 John 5:7.
While Bengel was a major 18th-century pioneer in recognizing chiastic structures (inverted parallelisms) throughout the New Testament—and John Wesley heavily relied on Bengel's work for his own Explanatory Notes—neither scholar mapped out a chiasm for the controversial "Johannine Comma" text in 1 John 5:7. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Instead, their individual commentaries on the verse focused on different theological and textual elements:
    • Bengel's Focus: In his famous Gnomon of the New Testament, Bengel dedicated his analysis of 1 John 5:7 to a rigorous text-critical defense of the verse's authenticity. He focused heavily on the grammar, arguing that the masculine gender of the Greek phrase "three who bear witness" (\(\tau\rho\epsilon\tilde{\iota}\varsigma\ \mathit{o\mathit{\iota}}\ \mu\alpha\rho\tau\upsilon\rho o\tilde{\upsilon}\nu\tau\epsilon\varsigma\)) mathematically and grammatically required the heavenly witnesses to match the earthly ones. [1, 2, 3, 4]
    • Wesley's Focus: In his Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, Wesley famously praised the verse, calling it the "sun in the world" and the "heart in a man" for the Epistle. He described the verse structurally as "a brief recapitulation of all which has been before advanced concerning the Father, the Son, and the Spirit," rather than an inverted chiastic structure. [1]
Are you researching the internal grammatical arguments for the Johannine Comma, or are you looking for other passages in 1 John where Bengel explicitly identified a chiasm?




  • BYU Studies

    Chiasmus Criteria in Review - BYU Studies
    Johannes Albrecht Bengel. As Bengel used the term, it referred to both alternating parallels (a-b-a-b), called “direct chiasmus” (

 
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