The Johannine Comma () is a phrase (comma) in verses of the First Epistle of John. The text in the King James Bible reads (with italics and square brackets added for reference) : The inclusion of the Johannine Comma in the King James Bible is that it follows the Traditional historic printing of earlier English Christian Bibles which were based upon the many Greek New Testaments critical texts created by many different editors over a one hundred year period. Although the Comma was missing in Erasmus' first two editions, he included it in his three latest editions (5 editions: 1516, 1519, 1522, 1527, 1535), the Complutensian Polyglot printed in 1514 but not circulated/published until 1522, Robert Estienne a.k.a. Robertus Stephanus (4 editions: 1546, 1549, 1550, 1551), Theodore de Beza (9 editions between 1565 and 1604), and the Elzevirs (3 editions: 1624, 1633, 1641). It became a touchpoint for the Christian theological debate over the doctrine of the Trinity from the early church councils to the Catholic and Protestant disputes in the early modern period. Critics of the passage claim that it first originated as a gloss in a Latin manuscript around the end of the 4th century, and was subsequently incorporated into the text of the Vetus Latina during the 5th century, though not the earliest Vulgate manuscripts. It began to appear in manuscripts of the Vulgate starting after , and subsequently entered the Greek manuscript tradition in the 15th century (see Inclusion by Erasmus). The comma is absent from the Ethiopic, Aramaic, Syriac, Slavic, Armenian, Georgian, and Arabic translations of the Greek New Testament. It appears in some English translations of the Bible via its inclusion in the first printed New Testament, Novum Instrumentum omne by Erasmus, where it first appeared in the 1522 third edition. In spite of its late date, some members of the King James Only movement have argued for its authenticity. Text The "Johannine Comma" is a short clause found in 1 John 5:7–8. Erasmus omitted the text of the Johannine Comma from his first and second editions of the Greek-Latin New Testament (the ) because it was not in his Greek manuscripts. He added the text to his in 1522 after being accused of reviving Arianism and after he was informed of a Greek manuscript that contained the verse. Many subsequent early printed editions of the Bible include it, such as the Coverdale Bible