Johannine Comma and Codex Montfortianus

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Codex Montfortianus

Comma Johanneum in Codex Montfortianus. It reads: ὁτϊ τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτϋροῦντ·¨ ἐν τῶ ουνω, πηρ, λογος, καί πνα αγῖον, καί οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς εν εισϊ. καί τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτϋροῦντ·¨ ἐν τῃ γῃ, πνα, ὑδωρ, καί αιμα.

Codex Montfortianus reads:

ὁτϊ τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτϋροῦντ·¨ ἐν τῶ ουνω, πηρ, λογος, καί πνα αγῖον, καί οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς εν εισϊ. καί τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτϋροῦντ·¨ ἐν τῃ γῃ, πνα, ὑδωρ, καί αιμα.

Codex Montfortianus and Beza's 1598 compared:

Minuscule 61	Beza 1598
ὁτϊ	ὅτι
τρεῖς	τρεῖς
εἰσιν	εἰσιν
οἱ	οἱ
μαρτϋροῦντ·¨	μαρτυροῦντες
ἐν	εν
τῶ	τῷ
ουνω,	οὐρανῷ,
	ὁ
πηρ	πατήρ
	ὁ
λογος,	λόγος,
καί	καὶ
	τὸ
πνα	ἅγιον
αγῖον,	Πνεῦμα·
καί	καὶ
οὗτοι	οὗτοι
οἱ	οἱ
τρεῖς	τρεῖς
εν	ἕν
εισϊ.	εἰσι·

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke said of Codex Montfortianus:

The Codex Montfortii, or Codex Dubliniensis, cited by Erasmus, under the title of Codex Britannicus, in Trinity College, Dublin. This may be said to be the only genuine MS. which contains this text; as no advocate of the sacred doctrine contained in the disputed passage would wish to lay any stress whatever on such evidence as the two preceding ones afford. Michaelis roundly asserts, vol. iv., page 417, of his Introductory Lectures, that this MS. was written after the year 1500. This, I scruple not to affirm, is a perfectly unguarded assertion, and what no man can prove. ln 1790 I examined this MS. myself, and though I thought it to be comparatively modern, yet I had no doubt that it existed before the invention of printing, and was never written with an intention to deceive. I am rather inclined to think it the work of an unknown bold critic, who formed a text from one or more MSS. in conjunction with the Vulgate, and was by no means sparing of his own conjectural emendations; for it contains many various readings which exist in no other MS. yet discovered. But how far the writer has in any place faithfully copied the text of any ancient MS. is more than can be determined. To give the reader a fair view of this subject, I here subjoin what I hope I may call a perfect fac-simile of the seventh and eighth verses, as they exist in this MS., copied by the accurate hand of the Rev. Dr. Barrett, the present learned librarian of Trinity College.

Codex Montfortianus reads "Holy Spirit" instead of "Spirit" as the Textus Receptus reads. (The articles are also missing before the three earthly witnesses - spirit, water, blood.)

Johannine Comma and Codex Montfortianus

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