A Vindication of I John, V. 7: From the Objections of M. Griesbach : in which is Given a New View of the External Evidence, with Greek Authorities for the Authenticity of the Verse, Not Hitherto Adduced in Its Defence

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W. Hughes, sold by Rivingtons, 1821 - Bible - 70 pages

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Page 21 - This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood; and it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
Page 21 - He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
Page 22 - THIS is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
Page 21 - And it is the Spirit that bearelh witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost : and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and. the water, and the blood : and these threeagree in one.
Page 57 - Dicit Dominus : Ego et pater unum sumus ; et iterum de Patre et Filio et Spiritu sancto scriptum est : Et hi tres unum sunt...
Page 23 - Ufcvfia, which in ver. 6 has, itself, a neuter participle,-is, in the -n&rt verse, when accompanied with two other neuter nouns, most unexpectedly, and solecistically connected with a masculine participle; a violation of grammar, which is a stronger evidence of the loss of some intervening sentence, than the existence of a verse in only one manuscript is, of interpolation. But in the seventh verse we have the three witnesses, already recorded by St. John in his Gospel,* and, at the same time, language...
Page 12 - If the verse has not yet been found in any other Greek Manuscript, it may hereafter. The Hymn to Ceres had been lost for sixteen centuries, when it was discovered in a manuscript at Moscow, and that manuscript written as late as the end of the XlVth century.
Page 56 - Quoniam tres sunt qui Testimonium dant in terra Spiritus, Aqua et Sanguis, et tres sunt qui testimonium perhibent in Coelo Pater, Verbum, et Spiritus Sanctus et hi tres unum sunt.
Page 23 - Christ ; not by water only, but by water and blood; and it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth : for there are three that bear record, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and these three agree in one.

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