After 6 years of study, writing, and re-writing this study, this is the end-result that leads the reader through several aspects of the “Comma”, for and against, with a comparison at the end.
The thesis aims to evaluate and critique three claims of support given in favor of the authenticity of the Comma Johanneum that have proliferated in recent years.
... Comma/Comma Johanneum, 238-39 Robert Estiènne (Stephanus), 35, 239- 40 Theodore Beza, 35, 240 variants of, 33-34, 227-28 Christian interpretation, Philip Melanchthon, 50-55, 319-36. See also Melanchthon, Philip aids to biblical exegesis ...
... comma in Greek manuscripts was quite rare until the 15th century CE . It is primarily found in Latin manuscripts . While some of the Latin manuscripts containing the Comma Johanneum are ancient , it did not appear in the original Latin ...
... Comma Johanneum , 1 Jn 5 : 8 . By deleting the Vulgate's reference to the persons of the Trinity , Erasmus initiated a major textual controversy that still affects exegesis and that provided the Radical Reformation with a scriptural ...
... comma ( the Codex Montfortianus in Ireland ) , he quickly changed course and included the comma , first in a ... Johanneum , ” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 56 , fasc . 4 ( 1980 ) : 385 . 96. “ Translation of Erasmus ' annotations on ...