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	The only text in Scripture which was ever claimed to prove, or affirm, that the Father, Son and Spirit are one, is a portion of 1 John 5:7,8. This appears only in Manuscripts written since the fifth century, and is acknowledged by all Trinitarians to be a “forgery. ” So undisputable is this, that the translators of the “Revised Version” recently published, omit the clause without note or comment, though those Revisors were themselves believers in Trinity. Like some other doctrines received by Protestants through Papacy, this one is received and fully endorsed, though its adherents are aware that not a word of Scripture can be adduced in its support. Nay more, any one who will not affirm this unscriptural doctrine as his faith, is declared by the action of the Evangelical Alliance to be nonorthodox — a heretic. (Charles Taze Russel, editor, “Hear, O Israel! Jehovah Our God is One-Jehovah,” Zion’s Watchtower, July 1882, 3)		:The only text in Scripture which was ever claimed to prove, or affirm, that the Father, Son and Spirit are one, is a portion of 1 John 5:7,8. This appears only in Manuscripts written since the fifth century, and is acknowledged by all Trinitarians to be a “forgery. ” So undisputable is this, that the translators of the “Revised Version” recently published, omit the clause without note or comment, though those Revisors were themselves believers in Trinity. Like some other doctrines received by Protestants through Papacy, this one is received and fully endorsed, though its adherents are aware that not a word of Scripture can be adduced in its support. Nay more, any one who will not affirm this unscriptural doctrine as his faith, is declared by the action of the Evangelical Alliance to be nonorthodox — a heretic. <small>(Charles Taze Russel, editor, “Hear, O Israel! Jehovah Our God is One-Jehovah,” Zion’s Watchtower, July 1882, 3)</small>

	==See also==		==See also==

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[[Charles Taze Russel]] of the Jehovah's Witnesses said of the Comma:

The only text in Scripture which was ever claimed to prove, or affirm, that the Father, Son and Spirit are one, is a portion of 1 John 5:7,8. This appears only in Manuscripts written since the fifth century, and is acknowledged by all Trinitarians to be a “forgery. ” So undisputable is this, that the translators of the “Revised Version” recently published, omit the clause without note or comment, though those Revisors were themselves believers in Trinity. Like some other doctrines received by Protestants through Papacy, this one is received and fully endorsed, though its adherents are aware that not a word of Scripture can be adduced in its support. Nay more, any one who will not affirm this unscriptural doctrine as his faith, is declared by the action of the Evangelical Alliance to be nonorthodox — a heretic. (Charles Taze Russel, editor, “Hear, O Israel! Jehovah Our God is One-Jehovah,” Zion’s Watchtower, July 1882, 3)

==See also==
* [[1 John 5:7]]

==External links==

* [https://www.textandtranslation.org/c-t-russel-on-1-john-57/ Charles Taze Russel on the Comma Johanneum] by [[Christian McShaffrey]]

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