Christians had no imposing formalism or paid priesthood.5
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1951 p. 138
5. A Source Book of Roman History, by Dana C. Munro, 1904, p. 170.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1951 p. 140
In brief summary the words of that well-known textual critic F. H. A. Scrivener can be quoted: “We need not hesitate to declare our conviction that the disputed words were not written by St. John: that they were originally brought into Latin copies in Africa from the margin, where they had been placed as a pious and orthodox gloss on ver. 8: that from the Latin they crept into two or three late Greek codices, and thence into the printed Greek text, a place to which they had no rightful claim.”10
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1964. p. 187
10 A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament by F. H. A. Scrivener, 4th edition, 1894, volume 2, page 407.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1964. p. 188
Regarding this Trinitarian passage, textual critic F. H. A. Scrivener wrote: “We need not hesitate to declare our conviction that the disputed words were not written by St. John: that they were originally brought into Latin copies in Africa from the margin, where they had been placed as a pious and orthodox gloss on ver. 8: that from the Latin they crept into two or three late Greek codices, and thence into the printed Greek text, a place to which they had no rightful claim.”—A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (Cambridge, 1883, third ed.), p. 654.
Reasoning From the Scriptures. 1985, 1989 ed. p. 423
A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament
A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament Volume 2
A New Pronouncing Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages, compiled by Mariano Velázquez da la Cadena, in the edition of 1902, gives as one of the definitions of the word “remnant” the following: “Los verdaderos siervos de Jehová” (The true servants of Jehovah).
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1963. p. 744
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