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4 # ^ # ^ % W J ^ v ^ mM ^ ^ m $ w % ^ & -si . v ^ . Jthtmsmt , m the fourth century , queries tue verse , with reference to John as its author . The passage is this : ' * Is not that lively and saving baptism , whereby we receive remis * sion of sins , administered in the name
of the Father , the Son and the Holy Spirit ? And St . John saps , And these three are ^ ne . " See Porson ' s Letters , p . 213 . This quotation is evaded by saying , that the dialogue between an Atbanasian and an Arian , in which
this paragraph occurs , is supposed to be spurious . The argument is , that some things are said in it , which are worthy only of a doating monk : as if any thing could be said by a monk , which might not be said by a wretch
like Afchanasius * The truth is , certain dtvines , being ashamed that the author of such a dialogue should be deemed the chief pillar qf the English Church , and the framer of its creed , stripped him of the disgrace , and put it on Maximus , a monk of the Seventh
century . This * however , is a gratuitous assumption , and the dialogue is as authentic as any other of the works of Atbanasius * The piece came down among his works and under his name . It was composed when the Arian
controversy wa& raging-, which was in . the fourth * not in the seventh century , and there occurs in it an incideotal notice of the joint reign of Constantine and Constantius , A- C . 337 , &s a period of recent occurrence .
I have not yet done with Tertullian . la his Treatise de Baptismo , p . 226 , he has words to l&is effect : " Thus wa 8 John the forerunner of our Lord preparing bis way > and , as a herald dispensing baptism , he makes ready
the way for the Holy Spirit coming upon such as were baptized , by the washing away of their sins ; which purification faith obtains , being sealed m * the Father , the Son and the Holy <* uost . For if in three witnesses
every word shall stand , how much more , while through the blessing we have the same arbiters of faith , and the same sponsors of salvation , the three divine names abound to the
establishment of our hope ! " Here the writer ^ on mentioning the fore * r » n » er of oar Lord , has before hi * ^ yes the scene 1 which took place at his kapUam , namelyJtha Father nroclaiitu
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tiie wiBgB of association , nlu ^^^^ ll it were , from the vety dove whiciivVas presented to hi $ imaginatipn , hie fjies otfand lights on the three Heavenly —¦ » fc ^ via
, — ™*~ y ^~ ~ '^^_ —~ i — — ^^ ww ^ m - ^^ -w mm ^ t w u w Witnesses , whom be calls arbitros fir dei , et sponsors salutis , but quotes only the ninth verse , If we receive the witness ( tf . nyen , the witness of God is greater . This association supposes the existence t > f the seventh verse , and
supposes it , too , so well knqwix , so familiar , to Tertullian , that , whenever the three divine names , numerus jipjninura divinoruin , as he calls the Father , the Son , and Holy Sp irit , presented themselves to his mind , he necessarily ami instantly recalled that verse to his recollection . Without the
Seventh verse , where we read of tfye three Heavenly Witaespes , as arbitros fidei , sponsores salutis , this association would have been impossible . Such an argument as this , drawn like pure watef from the very fouutain of truth , tUe great law which governs the
moral world , must appear the most satisfactory , as lying far beyond tfre reach of fiction or forgery . dement , of Alexandria , In a WQfk of which a fragment oaly is preserved , has a similar allusion to the vez ^ p : < c Every promise is valid before two pr
three witnesses ^ —4 ? efpre tkp Father and the Son ana the Holy Spirit , before whoip , as vyitnesafes and helpers , what are callqd the commc ^^ aieats ought to be kept . " This passage was first pointed out by Bengelius , and lately alleged by Dr , Burgess ,
Basil , who was born in the earlier part of the fourth century , quotes , or rather paraphrases , the verse . His words are , O * 7 nf £ WM / T ££ ck ®« o * , kcu AvyOV , KGCl TlvBVlJLOLy \ MQLV HffOW ^ OT ^ TCt * Those who believe in Gad and the
fTord and the Spirit K being , me Godhead . Here the true conaumsratioji of the Word instead pf the Son , is preserved ; and the last clause of the verse , " And these three are one , " is faithfully paraphrased by the words , " beiug one Godhead . " This led Porsoa to confess , that the passage of Basil looks like the verse of Su John .
Theodorus , the master of Gjiryaostom , about the sapae ag > e , as we leurp from Suida ? , wrote a treatise oa one God , in the Trinity , from the Epistle
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1826, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2548/page/25/
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