1 John 5:7 For there are three who bear witness (ὁτι τρεις εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυρουντες [hoti treis eisin hoi marturountes]). At this point the Latin Vulgate gives the words in the Textus Receptus, found in no Greek MS. save two late cursives (162 in the Vatican Library of the fifteenth century, 34 of the sixteenth…
Johannine Comma
B.H. Carroll on 1 John 5:7
To the integrity of this book, there is only one exception. The integrity of a book is established when it comes to us in the shape it was originally delivered, it has not lost anything out of it, and nothing has been added to it. Now, as to the integrity of this book, there is…
Albert Barnes Notes on 1 John 5:7
7. For there are three that bear record in heaven, &c. There are three that witness, or that bear witness—the same Greek word which, in ver. 8, is rendered bear witness—μαρτυροῦντες. There is no passage of the New Testament which has given rise to so much discussion in regard to its genuineness as this. The…
Adam Clarke on 1 John 5:7
Verse 7. There are three that bear record] The Father, who bears testimony to his Son; the Word or Λογος, Logos, who bears testimony to the Father; and the Holy Ghost, which bears testimony to the Father and the Son. And these three are one in essence, and agree in the one testimony, that Jesus…