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=How it got into the King James Version= | =How it got into the King James Version= | ||
Erasmus, a Dutch Catholic scholar, created a reliable Greek New Testament based on six incomplete Greek manuscripts. Because the words do not appear in the early Greek texts, he refused to include them in his 1516 and 1519 editions of the Greek New Testament. However, he faced pressure to include them from the Catholic. | |||
Erasmus still refused to include the Johanine Comma unless the Catholic authorities showed him a Greek text containing the Comma. He was shown a manuscript that was probably made in 1520, and Erasmus then included the words in his 1522 third edition, protesting all the while. Subsequently, however, he refused to include the words in future editions. But Erasmus’s third edition became the Textus Receptus which was used by the translators for the King James Version (KJV), dominant for the next four centuries. | |||
In 1897 the Roman Catholic Church published Enchiridion biblicum #135, which required that the Comma be accepted as authentic. This ruling was overturned by the Holy Office on June 6, 1927, which recognized the Comma as a late addition to the text. Contemporary translators, not being committed to the Vulgate text, have regularly omitted the comma. Even the NKJV has a translation similar to the NIV or NRSV.<ref>J. E. McDermond, 1, 2, 3 John, Believers Church Bible Commentary (Harrisonburg, VA; Waterloo, ON: Herald Press, 2011), 309.</ref> | |||
Here is how the passage reads in several modern translations: | |||
NIV | |||
:'' 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 1 Jn 5:7–8.</ref> | |||
ESV | |||
:''7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), 1 Jn 5:7–8.</ref> | |||
NASB | |||
:''7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.<ref>New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), 1 Jn 5:7–8.</ref> | |||
=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||