1 John 5:7 - Exposition

For those who bear witness are three, and thus constitute full legal testimony ( Deuteronomy 17:6 ; Deuteronomy 19:15 ; Matthew 18:16 ; 2 Corinthians 13:1 ). It will be assumed here, without discussion, that the remainder of this verse and the first clause of 1 John 5:8 are spurious. Words which are not contained in a single Greek uncial manuscript, nor in a single Greek cursive earlier than the fourteenth century (the two which contain the passage being evidently translated from the Vulgate), nor are quoted by a single Greek Father during the whole of the Trinitarian controversy, nor are found in any authority until late in the fifth century, cannot be genuine.