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Johannine Comma
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English
Comma Johanneum
Proper noun
Johannine Comma 1
A short phrase, included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7-8, whose authenticity is debated and is widely agreed to be an interpolation.
Usage notes
Its text (with the comma in bold) in the King James Bible reads:
7For there are three that beare record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8And there are three that beare witnesse in earth, the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood, and these three agree in one. King James Version (1611)
Synonyms
en Comma Johanneum Heavenly Witnesses
en eponyms
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