From Chick: "Tertullian wrote "which three are one" based on the verse in his Against Praxeas, chapter 25."
NOTICE how Tertullian's chapter ACTUALLY reads:
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CHAP. XXV.?THE PARACLETE, OR HOLY GHOST. HE IS DISTINCT FROM THE FATHER AND THE SON AS TO THEIR PERSONAL EXISTENCE. ONE AND INSEPARABLE FROM THEM AS TO THEIR DIVINE NATURE. OTHER QUOTATIONS OUT OF ST. JOHN?S GOSPEL
Tertullian, ?Against Praxeas,? in Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, trans. Peter Holmes, vol. 3, The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1885), 621.
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Tertullian is NOT quoting 1 John. He is quoting from the GOSPEL of JOHN throughout Chapter 25. He NEVER quotes from 1 John in any form in Chapter 25. ALL of the Scripture he quotes are from the GOSPEL.
This is what Tertullian actually says:
These Three are, one essence, not one Person, as it is said, ?I and my Father are One,?
Tertullian is not providing "These Three Are One" as a quotation. He is deriving that truth from John 10:30 which is the quoted matter in the sentence.
If the KJVOs cannot understand the difference between the GOSPEL of John and an EPISTLE of John... they are in a world of hurt.
The KJVOs are selectively quoting and editing Tertullian.
NOTICE how Tertullian's chapter ACTUALLY reads:
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CHAP. XXV.?THE PARACLETE, OR HOLY GHOST. HE IS DISTINCT FROM THE FATHER AND THE SON AS TO THEIR PERSONAL EXISTENCE. ONE AND INSEPARABLE FROM THEM AS TO THEIR DIVINE NATURE. OTHER QUOTATIONS OUT OF ST. JOHN?S GOSPEL
Tertullian, ?Against Praxeas,? in Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, trans. Peter Holmes, vol. 3, The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1885), 621.
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Tertullian is NOT quoting 1 John. He is quoting from the GOSPEL of JOHN throughout Chapter 25. He NEVER quotes from 1 John in any form in Chapter 25. ALL of the Scripture he quotes are from the GOSPEL.
This is what Tertullian actually says:
These Three are, one essence, not one Person, as it is said, ?I and my Father are One,?
Tertullian is not providing "These Three Are One" as a quotation. He is deriving that truth from John 10:30 which is the quoted matter in the sentence.
If the KJVOs cannot understand the difference between the GOSPEL of John and an EPISTLE of John... they are in a world of hurt.
The KJVOs are selectively quoting and editing Tertullian.