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beea as completely foiled as his predecessora have been in the attempt to produce even a tittle of evidence , that this ver ^ existed in the earliest copies of the New Testament .
it is not without reason that he makes his second period to extend from A . D . ^ 300 to 900 , a division ~ of nMeh we did snot at first dfecern the njOtive . In this period , the external
evidence , even according to hw own very original definition , begins to press haxd . tu > on Ms favourite text . The oldest M ^ . of the Greek Tes tament fall witMn this period , perhaps not for feortiithe commencement of
it , ftnd they with one consent omit the Heavenly : Witnesses ; no version except the Latin , and that only in the mo ^ t modern and corrupted ? copies , exhibits them ; no Greek feather quotes tliem as a proof oi the Trkiity . Witat can be 3 et against these proofe of spurioasaessi The Bishop fiads , that towards the end of what he makes his
second period , after the Latin fathers had begun to use the wo ( rds aa ^ Scriptuie , a Latin writer ^ a former of a prologue in die name of Jerome , ) speaks of the verse as bem ^ exant in
• T > e f % ct Jsg ^ at E ptobanius says ft te ^ te *^^^* ttWftvMBSt
. , s ^ ^ evtdent that h ^ hacd tid oSer reason for belie , rlng that they did reject the BplslM » than thts conjecture of hto o ? m ; " •^ ° f a multkwle of authors who meni ??^ ^ * &N& » n » J rejecting ^ lie Ooapel 5 U ?™ AfN ** fl ^^ the JW «««» . S ^ Mtchaftiia lutTod . Ch . xxk
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^^^ J ^^^/ pPf ^ w ' ^^^^^^^^^^^^*™ B ^ P | , ^ pt ^ " ' •^¦^^^^¦^ ^^ P ^ BB ^^^^^ JBJ ^^ . ^¦ Vi ^ riB ^^ pi ^^ V ^^^ pE ^ pTVPW ^^^ Witnesses in the Greek s evetf faiii or A 0-dox readers would hane been ft ^ tled ; but by speakitogr of die whifle 60 ©
years as a period , he hoped that tbef would forget that his argument < suca as it is ) applied only to the hitter pm of tei and agree with him that , m t £ is permdi there is positive evidence of the existence of the text in the Greek . And of - what kind is this testimony ?
Hie author of it comes before us with a lie in his mouth ;* for he pretends that he is St . Jerome , a falsehood so g iarinff , that even the Bifirhop of St . David ^ gives him up ; and he does not after all assert , but only insinuate , thttt the verse was found in Greek
MSS . If , then , in spite of the disci plina areemi wid the Arism erasures of Eusebius , this occidental forger found the Heavenly Witnesses in the Greek te ? ct , in the eighth century what ia become of those orthodox
MSS . } A fake witness , not unfre ^ quentiy , by some catuat concession , ruins the cause which lie is produced to support , and such w the case with the Pseudo-Jerome . Whto he
reproaches the Latin copies with the omission of the Heavenly Witnesses , he plainly shews , that in Ufa time that version did not generally contain them ; and what , then , becomes of its-testimony to their having bte ^ in
the Greek , in the age succeeding that of the Apostles I As to Wala ^ rid Strabua , in tlv ^ ninth centiuy , who , in a Latin eoinmentatty , gltjisses on this verse , thejpe is no-proof that he had compared the Latm and Greek texts togethefji nor doe& he himself
profess to liwe done it . That he includes 1 John v . 7 in his commeniaiT onVy siiews , that in the ninth ^ enttiry U had gained a footing it * | he Latin MSS . The reader of fiutho ^ Bmri ^ would , indeed , conciyile ^ firofift - 1 ? ti& art ^ il arraugement ctf ^ a ^ iiordsV tlitat Walafrid 8 trabus had as ^ rttd ike
m « Ut libere dicd ^ quod Mntio t teTtlmonio - Silo ( sc . pt * otogl ) aucloitt ) rte » textui conciliaFe veil ^ ^ tifiii ^ aliud e »* o pnto quam , obo tqS ^« J 6 «^ ^ ^^ w ^ ( rvrwo-upBtXtf ? MiUjiUft Jldloc , _ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/43/
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