Francis Turretin on the Heavenly Witnesses, Part I: Canonical Authority
A new English rendering of the first seven theses of Turretin's 1674 disputation on 1 John 5:7.
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The Three Heavenly Witnesses: Calamy”s Exposition of 1 John 5:7
On the stated supposition that 1 John 5:7 is genuine, Calamy expounds the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost as three heavenly witnesses whose testimony is one.
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The Comma Wager: What the Evidence Proves—and What It Does Not
The familiar story that Erasmus made a wager about the Comma Johanneum is commonly repeated as settled history. The actual question is narrower: what did Erasmus say, what…
Open record →The Positive Case for the Text: Calamy”s Third Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Calamy assembles his positive case for 1 John 5:7, emphasizing early Latin and African testimony and replying to competing accounts of the reading's origin.
Open record →Manuscripts, Versions, and the Fathers: Calamy”s Second Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Calamy answers the case from Greek manuscripts, ancient versions, and patristic silence, then weighs the Latin and African witnesses available to him.
Open record →The Text in Question: Calamy”s First Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Edmund Calamy frames the inquiry into 1 John 5:7, distinguishes the doctrine of the Trinity from the status of one clause, and states his initial concessions.
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