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Discover the fascinating journey of the Comma Johanneum, an interpolation in 1 John 5:7, from its origins to its inclusion and subsequent exclusion in the Bible. Explore how textual criticism and scholarly examination have shaped our understanding of this passage.
Codex Sinaiticus (01, א) alone has a complete text of the New Testament. It is dated to c. 330–360 C.E. The codex is an Alexandrian text-type manuscript written in uncial letters on parchment in the 4th century. Scholarship considers the Codex Sinaiticus to be one of the best Greek texts of the New Testament, along with the Codex Vaticanus.
Griesbach organized textual families and grounded decisions in early, independent witnesses, paving a disciplined path to recover the New Testament’s original wording.
New Testament textual criticism goes back to Origen (185-254), in the third century of our common era. The historical roots of textual scholarship actually go back to the 3rd-century B.C.E. in the Library of Alexandria. We are going to the 18th-19th centuries for the purposes of this article.
