Says nothing about bearing witness in heaven.Thank you for de facto acknowledging that Tertullian and Cyprian (in his two spots) are a pair in the usage of the heavenly witnesses verse. You can add Ps-Cyprian (Hundredfold Martyrs) as well.
Such as?And the Old Latin manuscripts, from the 2nd century line.
I didn't say Tertullian created the heavenly witnesses verse. I suggested he created the philosophical basis for its existence, which muddle headed people like Cyprian then used to create spurious quasi-biblical doctrines, which were independently augmented by later Councils, which doubtless spurred on others to interpose the heavenly witnesses verse into the biblical text (although the possibility that it was due to genuine accident, such as confusion between the text and the margin, cannot be discounted).You are taking an impossible position, first you try to create the heavenly witnsses verse in the late 4th century, then the 3rd before Nicaea,
and you have no sensible method for its creation. You just say whatever is convenient for the moment.
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