7. For there are three that bear record in heaven,the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost:and these three are one.8. And there are three that bear witness in earth,the spirit, and the water, and the blood:and these three agree in one.The stuff in bold can only be found in Latin manuscripts of 1 John; the Greek manuscripts are rendered without the bold, stating originally:For there are three that bear record:The spirit, and the water, and the blood:And these three agree in one.Also, as many of you Christians mayn't be aware, it was not until 1551 that the Bible was versified: until then, it was just a slab of text. Indeed, the original writings of the Bible were without commas, periods, spaces, etc. for each of those were later inventions. The insertion above is called the Johannine Comma. When Desiderius Erasmus published the editio princeps of the Greek Bible in 1515, he published it the text as is shown above in italics; however, because the bold text had been the subject of much debate (and heresy, and thus bloodshed) for over a thousand years, he was lambasted for not including the accepted text; he replied to his critics that, if they could just find one Greek text with the text as they say it should be, he would emend the next edition. When nobody could find just such a Greek text, they made one up, translated directly to Greek from the Latin Vulgate. As ought to be quite evident, the actual, original Greek New Testament lacked a direct statement of trinity, and so how did it get into the Latin Bible?
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