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    SPURIOUSNESS OF 1 JOHN V . 7 , 8 . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , The following summary of the evidence against the spurjou £ passage in 1 John v . 7 , 8 . was drawn up some years . jigoy after the perusal of Porson ' s Letter to Travis , and some other works on the subject . It has , of coarse , no claim to originality ; but it may serve as a satisfactory reply to your correspondent S . N . R . I have not the means of verifying the references ; wil

    but th ^ l probably be found accurate . The information , collected from Pope ' s Letter to Nisbett , I owe to a transcript ! of Mr . Belsham's Lectures ; and the reference I state as I found it . It is not too much to assert , that no man , capable of appreciating the evidence for the spuriousness of this passage , can hesitate in ackrnttiiag its force . lam , Sir , your ' s with respect , May 1 , 1806 . L . C *

    1 John v . 7 , 8 . — For there are three that bear record [ in heaven , the Father , the Word , and the Holy Ghost , and these three are one . And there are three that bear witness in earth , ] the Spirit , the Water , and the Blood , and these three agree ir * one /* That the words included in brackets were not written by th ^ iapostle John , is proved by the following arguments :-

    —1 . These words are wanting in all the Greek manuscripts containing the epistle , of which there are i \ 2 , with the ex £ ep * tioii of three , viz . the Dublin , the Berli n ¦ * , and a manuscript 2 T ) ei * tio « ed by Matthaei f . The Dublin MS . is certainly Hot

    earlier tharirthe 15 th century ; possibly as late as the 16 th ; and the passage is awkwardly translated from the modern copies of the Vulgate : it was probably interpolated in this place , for the purpose of deceiving Erasmus % . The Berlin MS . is a mere transcript of printed editions , partly of the Complutensian *

    partly of Stephens's third edition § . The MS . of Matthaei ig w Porson ' s Letter to Travis ( 1790 ) p . 131 . 403 . f Pope ' s JLetter to Nisl > ett , p . 339 . \ I ^ orson , p . 107 . 117 . 403 * § The text of Matthew ' s Gospel , of the first five chapters of Mark , of the Acts , of great part of the epistle to the Rontafls , of all the other epistles , and of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/17/