Johannine Comma
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English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]- A short phrase, included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7-8, whose authenticity is debated and is widely agreed to be an interpolation.
Usage notes
[edit]Its text (with the comma in bold) in the King James Bible reads:
7For there are three that beare record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8And there are three that beare witnesse in earth, the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood, and these three agree in one.