Editing Johannine Comma (section)

==Text==
The "Johannine Comma" is a [[Wikt:comma|short clause]] found in 1 John 5:7–8.
[[File:King-James-Version-Bible-first-edition-title-page-1611.png|thumb|332x332px|The King James Bible (1611) contains the Johannine comma.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Johannine Comma |url=https://www.bible-researcher.com/comma.html |access-date=2024-06-13 |website=www.bible-researcher.com}}</ref>]]
[[Erasmus]] omitted the text of the Johannine Comma from his first and second editions of the Greek-Latin New Testament (the {{lang|la|[[Novum Instrumentum omne]]}}) because it was not in his Greek manuscripts. He added the text to his {{lang|la|Novum Testamentum omne}} in 1522 after being accused of reviving [[Arianism]] and after he was informed of a Greek manuscript that contained the verse,<ref name="Nellen2017">{{cite book|author=Grantley McDonald, The Johannine Comma from Erasmus to Westminster |title=Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age: God's Word Questioned|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n583DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA64|date=2017|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-252982-4|pages=64–}}</ref> although he expressed doubt as to its authenticity in his ''Annotations''.<ref name="Metzger2005">{{Cite book|last1=Metzger|first1=Bruce M.|title=The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration|last2=Ehrman|first2=Bart D.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|isbn=9780195161229|edition=4th|location=New York|pages=146|chapter=Chapter 3. THE PRECRITICAL PERIOD. The Origin and Dominance of the Textus Receptus|orig-year=1964}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Erasmus|first=Desiderius|url=https://brill.com/view/title/2325|title=Erasmus' Annotations on the New Testament: Galatians to the Apocalypse. Facsimile of the Final Latin Text with All Earlier Variants|date=1993-08-01|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-09906-7|editor-last=Reeve|editor-first=Anne|series=Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, Volume: 52|pages=770|language=en}}</ref>

Many subsequent early printed editions of the Bible include it, such as the [[Coverdale Bible]] (1535), the [[Geneva Bible]] (1560), the [[Douay-Rheims Bible]] (1610), and the [[King James Bible]] (1611). Later editions based on the {{lang|la|[[Textus Receptus]]}}, such as [[Robert Young (biblical scholar)|Robert Young]]'s ''[[Young's Literal Translation|Literal Translation]]'' (1862) and the [[New King James Version]] (1979), include the verse. In the 1500s it was not always included in Latin New Testament editions, though it was in the [[Sixto-Clementine Vulgate]] (1592). However, [[Martin Luther]] did not include it in his [[Luther Bible]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PstfDwAAQBAJ&dq=Johannine+comma+complutensian+polyglot+Erasmus&pg=PA327 |title=The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1802 to 1925 |date=2010-04-01 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-1-4875-2337-4 |language=en}}</ref>

The text (with the Comma in brackets and italicised) in the King James Bible reads:
{{Blockquote
|text={{ssup|7}}For there are three that beare record [{{em|in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.}}] {{ssup|8}}[{{em|And there are three that beare witnesse in earth}}], the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood, and these three agree in one.
|source=King James Version (1611)
}}

The text (with the Comma in brackets and italicised) in the Latin of the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate reads:
{{Blockquote
|text={{ssup|7}}{{lang|la|Quoniam tres sunt, qui testimonium dant [{{em|in caelo: Pater, Verbum, et Spiritus Sanctus: et hi tres unum sunt.}}]|italics=no}} {{ssup|8}}{{lang|la|[{{em|Et tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in terra}}]: spiritus, et aqua, et sanguis: et hi tres unum sunt.|italics=no}}
|source=Sixto-Clementine Vulgate (1592)
}}

The text (with the Comma in brackets and italicised) in the Greek of the {{lang|la|Novum Testamentum omne}} reads:
{{Blockquote
|text={{ssup|7}}{{lang|grc|ὅτι τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες [{{em|ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ πατήρ λόγος καὶ πνεῦμα ἅγιον καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσι}}]|italics=no}} {{ssup|8}}{{lang|grc|[{{em|καὶ τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες ἐν τῇ γῇ}}] πνεῦμα καὶ ὕδωρ καὶ αἷμα καὶ οἱ τρεῖς εἰς τὸ ἕν εἰσιν.|italics=no}}
|source={{lang|la|Novum Testamentum omne}} (1522; absent in earlier editions)
}}

There are several variant versions of the Latin and Greek texts.<ref name = "Metzger1994"/>

English translations based on a modern critical text have omitted the comma from the main text since the [[English Revised Version]] (1881), including the [[New American Standard Bible]] (NASB), [[English Standard Version]] (ESV), and [[New Revised Standard Version]] (NRSV).