Editing Johannine Comma (section)

==Origin==
[[File:CODEX SINAITICUS 1 John 5 7 8 Comma Johanneum.JPG|thumb|250px|right|Excerpt from [[Codex Sinaiticus]] including 1 John 5:7–9. It lacks the Johannine Comma. The red coloured text says: "There are three witness bearers, the spirit and the water and the blood".]]

Several early sources that might be expected to include the Comma Johanneum in fact omit it. For example, [[Clement of Alexandria]]'s ({{circa|200}}) quotation of [[:s:Bible (King James)/1 John#5:8|1 John 5:8]] does not include the Comma.<ref name="wilson"/>

Among the earliest possible references to the Comma appears by the 3rd-century [[Church Fathers|Church Father]] [[Cyprian]] (died 258), who in ''Unity of the Church 1.6''<ref>[https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf05.iv.v.i.html CCEL: The Treatises of Cyprian]</ref> quoted John 10:30: "Again it is written of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, 'And these three are one.{{'"}}<ref name="CEQ"/> However, some believe that he was giving an interpretation of the three elements mentioned in the uncontested part of the verse.<ref name=":0" />

The first undisputed work to quote the Comma Johanneum as an actual part of the Epistle's text appears to be the 4th-century Latin homily {{lang|la|Liber Apologeticus}}, probably written by [[Priscillian|Priscillian of Ávila]] (died 385), or his close follower Bishop Instantius.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=The Comma Johanneum and Cyprian {{!}} Bible.org |url=https://bible.org/article/comma-johanneum-and-cyprian |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=bible.org |language=en}}</ref>