The Waldenses with their blood preserved 1 John 5:7, and their new testament texts of the New Testament. Erasumus was chosen by God to restore these recieved texts because he was a Catholic and the Lord Jesus included his testimony the Book of Revelation,
When Erasumus restored the recieved texts, you were given the New testament without error. You can credit the Waldenses part, because of the Blood of the Waldenses given to preserve the texts without error and the Catholic Churches fear of changing any of the wording of the Book of Revelation.
The Catholic Church according to the Waldenses changed some of the wording in the Jerome bible, and thus Waldenses refusing to the death to acknowledge the pope having a right to change the wording of their bible, never accepted what they said was the Catholic tampered version of Gods Words, the Jerome latin bible.
The Catholic Church however didn't change the Wording of Book of Revelation because they feared the curse given to the changing of any of the words written in in this Book. The Waldenses said the Catholic Church tampered with other manuscripts within the New Testament. The Waldenses were purists in that they believed in preserving the Words of the original manuscripts. God Interestingly used both the Waldenses and the Catholic Church in preserving his Word, and it was a Catholic by the name of Erasumus that restored the recieved texts. Erasamus is the Catholic believer in Christ that has been said by the Catholic church the egg that hatched Luther and the reformation.
The Gutenberg press however was invented by Gutenberg to print these restored texts in German, but once Gutenberg perfected his press and actually started printing the Gutenberg bible they called his loan and confiscated his printing presses.
God then use King James to preserved his Word in the creation of the Authorized King James Bible. With the printing of the Authorized King James Version and because the Catholic church was powerless to stop the Printing of the English bible after the Spanish Armada was destroyed. God then Blessed the British Empire carrying his seed (the Word) to all the world.
The Catholic Church started printing the Douay Rhiems bible based off the Jerome latin bible in English for the Catholic Believers in Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church had to come out of the closet and supply an English Douay Rheim version of the Jerome Bible or they would of started reading the Waldenses based Bible version as is expressed within the textus receptus written in English. What is interesting is that the ana-baptists included the Catholics manuscripts of the Book of the Revelations. We have the perfect inspired inerrant Words from God clothed in English within the Authorized King James Version.
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The Vaudois
Now the "Waldensian," or "Vaudois" Bibles stretch from about 157 to the 1400s AD. The fact is, according to John Calvin's successor Theodore Beza, that the Vaudois received the Scriptures from missionaries of Antioch of Syria in the 120s AD and finished translating it into their Latin language by 157 AD. This Bible was passed down from generation, until the Reformation of the 1500s, when the Protestants translated the Vaudois Bible into French, Italian, etc. This Bible carries heavy weight when finding out what God really said. John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards believed, as most of the Reformers, that the Vaudois were the descendants of the true Christians, and that they preserved the Christian faith for the Bible-believing Christians today.
A Trail of Evidence
But during this same time, we find mention of 1 John 5:7, from about 200 AD through the 1500s. Here is a useful timeline of references to this verse: 200 AD Tertullian quoted the verse in his Apology, Against Praxeas
250 AD Cyprian of Carthage, wrote, "And again, of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost it is written: "And the three are One" in his On The Lapsed, On the Novatians, (see note for Old Latin)
350 AD Priscillian referred to it [Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Academia Litterarum Vindobonensis, vol. xviii, p. 6.]
350 AD Idacius Clarus referred to it [Patrilogiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina by Migne, vol. 62, col. 359.]
350 AD Athanasius referred to it in his De Incarnatione
398 AD Aurelius Augustine used it to defend Trinitarianism in De Trinitate against the heresy of Sabellianism
415 AD Council of Carthage appealed to 1 John 5:7 when debating the Arian belief (Arians didn't believe in the deity of Jesus Christ)
450-530 AD Several orthodox African writers quoted the verse when defending the doctrine of the Trinity against the gainsaying of the Vandals. These writers are:
A) Vigilius Tapensis in "Three Witnesses in Heaven"
B) Victor Vitensis in his Historia persecutionis [Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Academia Litterarum Vindobonensis, vol. vii, p. 60.]
C) Fulgentius in "The Three Heavenly Witnesses" [Patrilogiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina by Migne, vol. 65, col. 500.]
500 AD Cassiodorus cited it [Patrilogiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina by Migne, vol. 70, col. 1373.]
550 AD Old Latin ms r has it
550 AD The "Speculum" has it [The Speculum is a treatise that contains some good Old Latin scriptures.]
750 AD Wianburgensis referred to it
800 AD Jerome's Vulgate has it [It was not in Jerome's original Vulgate, but was brought in about 800 AD from good Old Latin manuscripts.]
1000s AD miniscule 635 has it
1150 AD minuscule ms 88 in the margin
1300s AD miniscule 629 has it
157-1400 AD Waldensian (that is, Vaudois) Bibles have the verse
1500 AD ms 61 has the verse
Even Nestle's 26th edition Greek New Testament, based upon the corrupt Alexandrian text, admits that these and other important manuscripts have the verse: 221 v.l.; 2318 Vulgate [Claromontanus]; 629; 61; 88; 429 v.l.; 636 v.l.; 918; l; r.
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