James Knight

[Steven Avery]

Excellent on Cyprian and Tertullian in BCEME

The Scripture Doctrine of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity, Vindicated from the Misinterpretations of Dr. Clarke: To which is Prefixed a Letter to the Reverend Doctor, (1714)
http://books.google.com/books?id=V9tbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA137
p. 137-139
p. 290-303

The True Scripture Doctrine of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity, Continued and Vindicated from the Misrepresentations of Dr. Clarke. In Answer to His Reply. By the Author of the Scripture-Doctrine Published and Recommended by Robert Nelson [i.e. James Knight].
https://books.google.com/books?id=xu9hAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA295
p. 290-297

 

[Steven Avery]

RGA - a little bit

BCEME - p 201-202

Another challenge came from James Knight, who defended the comma and the doctrine it summarised, arguing that it was cited by both Tertullian and Cyprian, who interpreted it as referring to ‘not a bare Unity of Testimony, but of Substance’.318 In response, Clarke stressed that ‘the natural signification of the words, these three are One, is, that they are One agreeing Testimony’. He also gave further details about the lack of manuscript authority for the comma. All the manuscript witnesses adduced by Mill were mistakes. For a clarification of the lack of attestation of the comma in Estienne’s manuscripts, he referred his readers to his earlier refutation of Wells

318 Knight 1714, 139. The only name that appears on the title page is that of Robert Nelson, who provided the introductory letter. The attribution of the body of this work to Knight was made by Herne 1720, 4–5; Snobelen 2001, 187, suggested that the author was Francis Gastrell.

[Herne, Thomas.] An Account of All the Considerable Books and Pamphlets That Have Been Wrote on Either Side in the Controversy Concerning the Trinity, since the Year MDCCXII. London: Knapton, 1720.

Snobelen, Stephen D.
“God of Gods, and Lord of Lords”: The Theology of Isaac Newton’s General Scholium to the Principia.’ Osiris, 2nd Series, 16 (2001): 169–208.

Continues with Manuscript in England, British Codex - obeloi Stephanus

Knight was also convinced that the Latin text used by Cyprian must have been based on a Greek text; for otherwise ‘it is hard to tell, how it [that is, the comma] should get into the Latin Copies, if it had never been in the Greek.’323

323 Knight 1715, 295.

[Knight, James].
The Scripture Doctrine of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity Vindicated from the Misinterpretations of Dr. Clarke. To Which Is Prefixed a Letter to the Reverend Doctor, by Robert Nelson, Esq. 2nd ed. London: Smith, 1714.

The True Scripture Doctrine of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity, Continued and Vindicated From the Misinterpretations of Dr. Clarke. In Answer to his Reply. By the Author of the Scripture-Doctrine. Published and Recommended by Robert Nelson, Esq. London: Smith, 1715.

Christian Institutes (originally 1707)
Francis Gastrell -
http://books.google.com/books?id=ulwPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA96