 | Universalism - 1800 - 490 pages
...stood in their books thus — // is the s/iirit that beareth itiitnas, because the spirit is truth : for there are three that bear record, the spirit, the water, and tie blood, and these three agree in one*." Some of the fathers, who wrote upon the doflrine of the... | |
 | 1815 - 876 pages
...of calves and sprinkled both t lie book and tin: people," &c. Read to the end of the chapter. Thus " there are three that bear record, the spirit, the water, and the blood." To sum up the tenor of our reasoning, the most ancient sacrifices were symbolical but not typical,... | |
 | Theophilus Lindsey - Unitarianism - 1818 - 422 pages
...and the power of miracles granted to the apostles) that beareth witness; because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear record, the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree in One; or, as some ancient writers read the text, these three are one,... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1822 - 934 pages
...the text originally stood thus: " It is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth, for there are three that bear record, the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood ; and these three agree in one." He also affirms that this reading stands in the oldest and most... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Theology - 1823 - 404 pages
...manuscript on run to the authority of Thomas Aquinas.* The Greek manuscripts have the text thus, " For there are Three that bear record, the spirit, the water, and the blood ; and these Three are One." IP many of the Latin manuscripts, the words, " these Three nro One,"... | |
 | Classical philology - 1828 - 384 pages
...own eyes in Cyril's Thesaurus ; but, instead of the seventh and eighth verses, not a word more than, For there are three that bear record, the spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three are one. Thirdly, 1 observe, that the Latin translation (Tit. xii. near the end)... | |
 | Thomas Fanshaw Middleton - Bible - 1828 - 728 pages
...testimonies from Cijrits Thesaurus; where Mr. Porson " saw with his own eyes not a " word more than, For there are three, that bear " record, the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood, and " the three are one." I can corroborate the accuracy of Mr. Person's statement as to the... | |
 | Franz Anton Knittel - 1829 - 322 pages
...his adversaries. Solomon, deny, which is conceived in the very same manner; namely, 1 JohnV.8.51 ' There are three that bear record, the spirit, the water, and the blood.' What say you to that? Has the Apostle expressed himself absurdly here ; in the first place,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1843 - 882 pages
...festival: consequently, the Communion, or Lord's Supper, was not then solemnized. I John v. 7, 8 : " — there are three that bear record — the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood." By " the Spirit" Dr. Benson understands Christ's miraculous powers ; by the Water, his Baptism... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1829 - 474 pages
...without it, as any one may see by reading over the passage, leaving out the words in question, thus: " For there are three that bear record," " the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and these three agree in one." It would then form, I think, a natural and proper conclusion... | |
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Spirit is truth, for there are three that bear record, the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood ; and these three agree in one. 
