Johannine Comma Timeline

100-200

150-200 δόξα σοι πάτερ· δόξα σοι λόγε· δόξα σοι πνεῦμα ἅγιον. (Acta Apostolorvm[1])

Translated as:

Glory be to thee, Father; Glory to thee, Word; Glory to thee, Holy Ghost.

177 Ὡς γὰρ Θεόν φαμεν, καὶ Υἱὸν τὸν Λόγον αὐτοῦ, καὶ Πνεῦμα ἅγιον, ἑνούμενα μὲν κατὰ δύναμιν [2]

Translated as:

For, as we acknowledge a God, and a Son his Logos, and a Holy Spirit, united in essence

200-300

200 "Ita connexus Patris in Filio et Filii in Paracleto, tres efficit coharentes, alterum ex altere, qui tres unum sunt, non unus, quomodo dictum est, Ego et Pater unum sumus." (Against Praxeas XXV [3]).

Translated as:

Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent persons, one from the other, which three are one, not one [person], as it is said, "I and my Father are One."

230 :"Ἰδοὺ ὡς ὀφθαλμοὶ δούλων εἰς χεῖρας τῶν κυρίων αὐτῶν, ὡς ὀφθαλμοὶ παιδίσκης εἰς χεῖρας τῆς κυρίας αὐτῆς, οὕτως οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν πρὸς Κύριον Θεὸν ἡμῶν, ἕως οὗ οἰκτειρήσαι ἡμᾶς, κ. τ. ἑ. ∆οῦλοι κυρίων Πατρὸς καὶ Υἱοῦ πνεῦμα καὶ σῶμα· παιδίσκη δὲ κυρίας τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἡ ψυχή. Τὰ δὲ τρία Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν ἐστιν· οἱ γὰρ τρεῖς τὸ ἕν εἰσιν."

Translated as:

""Behold, the eyes of bondservants in the hands of their lord, as the eyes of a bondwoman in the hands of their lady, so are our eyes towards the Lord our God, until he may pity us; spirit and body are the bondservants of the Lord Father and Son; but the soul is the bondwoman of the lady Holy Spirit. And the Lord our God is three, for the three are one."

250 :“Dicit Dominus, ‘Ego et Pater unum sumus,’ et iterum de Patre et Filio et Spiritu sancto scriptum est: ‘Et tres unum sunt.’”

Translated as:

“The Lord says, ‘I and the Father are one,” and again, it is written of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit, ‘And these three are one.’”

Tempus in causa est: Salvator apud homines, quia hominum corpus induerat, videbatur in corpore; ideo dixit: Non veni facere opera mea: hominis in se negavit officia? (1417D) Clamat ergo, ut illum ordinatorem in se praedicet, quem in se sibi meminit auctorem Patrem; quia Filius sequitur vocabulo, ita maior est ille qui praevenit; sed et mittentis et missi, quia tres unum sunt, de divinitatis unitate una substantia est : Ego et Pater unum sumus. Et (John 10:30) : qui me videt, videt et Patrem. Et ipse Salvator ad Apostolos: Tanto tempore, inquit, vobiscum sum, et Patrem non nostis?

Translated as:

Therefore, he cries out in order to proclaim in himself the predecessor whom he remembers as his Father and begetter. Since the Son is named second, therefore he who precedes is greater: but, because "these three are one" (1 John 5:7), the substance of him who sends and of him who is sent, in the context of the unity of the Godhead, is one: "I and the Father are one." (John 10:30), and "He sees me, sees the Father." (John 14:9) and, as the Savoir himself said to the Apostles: "I have been so long with you and yet you do not know the Father." (John 14:9)

Ταῖς θείαις γραφαῖς ἐναντιούμενοι· τί δὲ ἐναντιοῦσαι τῇ κάλῃ ταύτῃ πίστει, καὶ σωζούσῃ ὁμολογίᾳ, Θεὸς, Λόγος, Πνεῦμα· Πατὴρ, Υἱὸς, καὶ Πνεῦμα; Τριὰς ἐν Τριάδι ὡσαύτως, ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ Ἀποστόλῳ σαφῶς αρτυρήσει - ὅτι μὴ τὴν δυάδα ἀναιροῦσι, μᾶλλον δὲ Τριάδα τὴν Μονάδα κηρύσσοντες, ἀλλ', ἑνότητα θεότητος εἰδότες, ἐν ἑνὶ προσόπῳ τὰ τρία κηρύσσουσι.

translated as:

Those who oppose the divine scriptures—what then? Opposing this beautiful faith and saving confession God, Word, Spirit; Father, Son, and Spirit. The Trinity, likewise in the Trinity, is clearly testified in the same Apostle— that they do not abolish the duality, but rather, proclaiming the Trinity as the Unity, knowing the unity of the divinity, they proclaim the three in one person.

• 1598 Ὅτι τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ πατήρ, ὁ λόγος, καὶ τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα· καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσι· (Beza)

• 1611 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. (KJV)