Editing Trinitarian formula (section)

==Biblical origin==
[[File:In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, amen, RP-P-1915-560(R).jpg|thumb|Calligraphy by [[Antoon Derkinderen]], 1895]]
{{Clarify section|date=April 2024|reason=This seems to be saying that both the Matthew and the Didache passages are claimed by some to be later interpolations. This needs more discussion with sources on both sides.}}

These words are quoted from a command of the risen Jesus in the [[Great Commission]]: "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in
<ref>The Greek accusative, εἰς τὸ ὄνομα, is rendered by a minority of English translations as "''into'' the name", cf. {{cite web|title=English Standard Version (ESV) Footnote on Matthew 28:19.|url=http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Mat&c=28&t=ESV#s=957019|access-date=9 January 2014}}</ref> the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mat+28%3A19&version=NABRE Matthew 28:19]).

The formula is mentioned in the [[Didache]] (7:1-3), and it is mostly accepted as authentic due to its supporting manuscript evidence.<ref>Everett Ferguson, Baptism in the Early Church, 2013, 134-5</ref>
Nevertheless, some scholars have held the view that the passage is an interpolation as it is absent from the first few centuries of early Christian quotations, in which case it would be part of an apostolic or early Christian oral tradition from which both the received texts of Matthew and the Didache emerged.<ref>Sim, David C., and Boris Repschinski, eds. Matthew and his Christian contemporaries. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008, 124-5.</ref>
The view of the passage as an interpolation was in recent times maintained by the [[Jesus Seminar]], a nontrinitarian movement active in the 1990s. Critics of the Jesus Seminar described this particular line of argument as [[eisegesis]] based on a preconceived conclusion.<ref>They apply the Seminar's presuppositional test, "Beware of finding a Jesus entirely congenial to you", especially to the Jesus Seminar themselves, "who ''a priori'' have determined the nature of the 'historical Jesus' by adopting biased presuppositions, thereby producing a 'Jesus' wholly 'congenial' to themselves" ([https://books.google.com/books?id=QtE1orv4Xg0C&dq=%22beware+of+finding+a+jesus+entirely+congenial+to+you%22&pg=PA204 ''The Jesus Crisis: The Inroads of Historical Criticism Into Evangelical'', by Robert L. Thomas, F. David Farnell]).</ref>