This is the announcement of plans for a second edition of a book describing the debate over this portion of a famous verse: "in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth"

Now, is this celebrated passage 1 John 5:7-8 (KJV) authentic or spurious? This question once raised so much interest that even Sir Isaac Newton (d. 1722) and later the historian Edward Gibbon wrote about it (1784). The librarian T. H. Horne (d. 1862) listed over 50 bibliographic items, each devoted to the disputed verse. This new book expanded Horne's list, and filled in gaps. Since 1901 versions of the Bible in America began to omit 1 John 5:7. From 1900 to 1994 nearly all discussions in English on this verse yield only shallow treatment in a paragraph or a footnote, if not a page or two of comments. In contrast, this book is the first attempt in any language and of any century to provide a detailed history of the debate over this verse. "Maynard concludes that many of the arguments against the disputed text are defective, and that only fourteen Greek manuscripts from the first eight centuries omit 1 Jn 5:7-8." New Testament Abstracts, vol. 43, no. 3, 1999. Comma Publications announces plans for a second edition. This photograph is an image map of the first edition, which is now out of print. To view a larger image which has links to review excerpts and information about the author, click on this thumbnail image of the book.

The book mentioned above is out of print. However, another book is available. You may click on this thumbnail image to see an enlargement of the cover of The Gospels in Unison by Jeffery Khoo. The cost is $12.00. Add $3.50 for handling and postage.The thumbnail image for it was made from Spinware's free demo of JPEGCruncher 2.0. It was reduced from 78 kilobytes down to 6 kilobytes.







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