Scrivener - honest about the Cyprian citation

Steven Avery

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Scrivener, a fierce contra on the heavenly witnesses, at least left us his honest testimony about the Cyprian references to the heavenly witnesses:

A plain introduction to the criticism of the New Testament for the use of Biblical students - 1861
https://books.google.com/books?id=6pOl5kos2O0C&pg=PA461
1894
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/scrivener/ntcrit2/Page_405.html

This first one is about Ad Jubaianus and Unity of the Church.


If these two passages he taken together (the first is manifestly much the stronger ’), it is surely safer and more candid to admit that Cyprian read ver. 7 in his copies, than to resort to the explanation of Facundus [vi], that the holy Bishop was merely putting on ver. 8 a spiritual meaning ;

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Plain Introduction - 1883
https://books.google.com/books?id=hZQHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA511


It is no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound, that the worst corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected, originated within a hundred years after it was composed ... It is hard to believe that 1 John v. 7, 8 was not cited by Cyprian,

Dublin Review
Recent Evidence in Support of 1 John v. 7
Charles Vincent Dolman (1842-1918)
https://books.google.com/books?id=twoJAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA437 1882


Yet Dr. Scrivener is the only modern critic opposed to the verse, who has the honesty to say “ it is surely safer and more candid to admit that Cyprian read verse 7 in his copies, than to resort to the explanation of Facundus that the holy bishop was merely putting upon verse 8 a spiritual meaning."

The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix (1886)
Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1818-1896)
http://books.google.com/books?id=aDcMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA418
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers2/ANF-05/anf05-109.htm


And Scrivener decides that “ it is surely safer and more candid to admit that Cyprian read it in his copies, than to resort to," etc., the usual explainings away.
 
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