Jerome and verbal repetition (replicatio) - Fickermann and Regensburg ms. - medieval

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● [Letter no. 8] St Jerome argued that that verbal repetition [replicatio] in the [first] Epistle of John — "And there are three that bear witness, the Father, the Word and the Spirit" — was established as certain. St. Augustine, on the basis of apostolic thought and on the authority of the Greek text, ordered it to be left out.

(Letter No. 8, Lines 3-10, from Egilbert of Trier to Theoderic of Verdun, in Regensburg clm 14596; Fickermann, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek clm 14596; Fickermann, ed. Die Regensburger rhetorischen Briefe, p. 306; Translated by Deborah Adlam, 2011)
 
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TWOGIG - p. 396

[R. Brown] Fickermann has recently raised the possibility that in fact, he [Augustine] did know of the Comma [1 John 5:7] but rejected it (and for that reason never quoted it). Fickermannn points to a hitherto unpublished eleventh-century text which says that Jerome considered the Comma to be a genuine part of 1 John - clearly a memory of the Pseudo-Jerome”Prologue [to the Catholic Epistles]".

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● [Letter no. 8] St Jerome argued that that verbal repetition [replicatio] in the [first] Epistle of John — ”And there are three that bear witness, the Father, the Word and the Spirit”— was established as certain. St. Augustine, on the basis of apostolic thought and on the authority of the Greek text, ordered it to be left out. (Letter No. 8, Lines 3-10, from Egilbert of Trier to Theoderic of Verdun, in Regensburg clm 14596; Fickermann, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek clm 14596; Fickermann, ed. Die Regensburger rhetorischen Briefe, p. 306; Translated by Deborah Adlam, 2011)

○ Latin: Replicationem illam in epistola Iohannis:”et tres sunt qui testimonium dant, pater et verbum et spiritus", beatus Hieronymus ratam esse astruit, beatus vero Augustinus ex Apostoli ex sentential et ex Grecę linguę auctoritate demendam esse prescribit.
(Regensburg clm 14596; Fickermann, ed. Die Regensburger rhetorischen Briefe, p. 306)
(Brown, The Epistles of John: Translated, with Introduction, Notes, and Commentary, 1982, p. 785
 
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TWOGIG - p. 395

• [McDonald] Before leaving Augustine we should note two points. Firstly, in 1934 Norbert Fickermann drew attention to a note in a twelfth-century manuscript of the Regensburg Epistolae rhetoricae, which makes the following claims: ”St Jerome argued that that verbal repetition [replicatio] in the [first] Epistle of John—‘And there are three that bear witness, the Father, the Word and the Spirit’—was established as certain. By contrast, St Augustine prescribed that it should be removed, on the basis of the Apostle’s meaning and the authority of the Greek.”

(fn. 34. Thiele,”Beobachtungen zum Comma Iohanneum (I Joh 5,7f.).”, 1959, 71-72, takes this statement as possible evidence that Augustine suppressed the comma in his text, evidence he sees in the occurrence of the readings Filius and Spiritus Sanctus in Augustine’s Contra Maximinum.)

(McDonald, Raising the Ghost of Arius. Erasmus, the Johannine Comma and Religious Difference in Early Modern Europe [Ph.D. dissertation Leiden 2011; impressum: Bruxeliis: Ex officina Antipodea, 2011], p. 30.)
 
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Grantley does a hand-wave on Augustine, and does not comment on the incredible Jerome info, very specific info that looks to have been passed down.

Pics from Fickermann would be helpful, Thiele might only be on Augustine?
 
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