Table of Contents


  1. The first century
  2. The second century
  3. The third century: Tertullian, Cyprian
  4. The fourth century: Priscillian, Gregory of Nazianzus, Jerome
  5. The fifth century: Victor Vitensis
  6. The sixth century: Fulgentius, Cassiodorus
  7. The seventh century: Isidore of Seville
  8. The eighth century: The venerable Bede
  9. The ninth century: the Ulmensis manuscript
  10. The tenth century: codex Toletanus, the MSS of Leon
  11. The eleventh century:
  12. The twelfth century: codices Demidovianus, Divionensis, Colbertinus
  13. The thirteenth century: codex Montfortianus, codex Perpinianus
  14. The fourteenth century: codex Ottobonianus, codex Teplensis
  15. The fifteenth century: pre-Lutheran German Bibles
  16. The sixteenth century: Erasmus vs. Edward Lee, Erasmus vs. Stunica
  17. The seventeen century: Benson vs. Gutbier--Sandius vs. 1 John v.7f
  18. The eightheen century: Emyln vs. Martin--Martin vs. Simon--Smallbroke's attack--Mace's edition--Gill's defense--Twells' defense--Bengel's defense--Semler's original defense--de Missy vs. Amelotte & Martin--Wagner's defense--Newton's attack--Goeze vs. Semler--Goeze vs. Semler--Goeze vs. Kiefer--edition of Griesbach--Gibon's attack--Travis vs. Gibbon--Knittel's defense--Michaelis' attack--Vindex to Porson--Porson vs. Travis--Priestley's attack--Hezel vs. Griesbach--Travis to Gibbon--Marsh vs. Travis.
  19. The nineteenth century: Matthei's editon--Butler's historical outline of the disputes--Griesbach's diatribe--Clarke's discussion--Middleton's defense--Pherez' defense--
    Nolan's lengthy defense--Hale's discussion--Burgess' defense--Horne's original defense--Oxlee vs. Nolan--Huyshe vs. Porson--Oxlee vs. the Bishop of Salisbury--Burgess vs. Crito--Knittel's defense translated into English--Turton vs. Evanson--Orme's memoir of the controversy--Lachmann's edition--Norton's attack--Huyshe on Wiseman's comments--Burgess to Bailllie--Wiseman's book--Hunt's defense--Lucke's attack--Burgess
    vs. Scholz--Bloomfield's about-face--Gaussen's defense--Dobbin's collation--Tregelles vs.
    1 John v.7f--Forster's book in defense--Dabney's defense--Tischendorf's eighth edition--Hort's notes on select readings--Armfield's book in defense--Printed editions of
    the Tepl Codex--Harris on the Leicester Codex--Kolling's treatise in defense--1897: Rome forbade denial or doubt of 1 John v.7f--Cardinal Vaugh to W. Ward
  20. The twentieth century: Bludau's numerous published articles--Kunstle's attack--Babut's research--Knopf's article in RGG--Nestle's attack--A.T. Robertson's attack--Riviere's defense--Buchsel's defense--Fickerman's discussion (in German)--Lemonnyer's article (in French)--Jenkin's article--Ayuso's articles (in Spanish)
    --Greeven's article in RGG--W. Thiele's observations--article by Demotropoulos (in modern Greek)--D. A. Carson's attack--Stewart Custer's attack--Posset's article--Borger's article.

APPENDICES


  1. Theology/character of the opposers (p. 293)
  2. Pertinent quotations (p. 297)
  3. Anticipated objections (p. 302)
  4. A new Reformation? Is it needed today?
  5. Display of a selection of non-majority readings (p. 308)
  6. Deductions drawn from readings in appendix 5 (p. 322)
  7. Reply to Gary Hudson's attack on 1 John v.7f (p. 323)
  8. Reply to Stewart Custer's attack on 1 John v.7f (p. 325)
  9. Is the Received Text part of the Baptist heritage? (p. 330)
  10. Greek manuscript evidence for and against 1 John v.7f (p. 332)
  11. Latin manuscript evidence (p. 343)
  12. Value of the German language (p. 349)
  13. Noted librarians mentioned (p. 350)
  14. Andrew Fuller's defense of 1 John v.7f (p. 351)
  15. Time span of contestants for and against 1 John v.7f (p. 352-356)