Theophylact of Ohrid

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The three witnesses : The disputed text in St. John : considerations new and old (1883)
Henry Thomas Armfield
https://archive.org/details/threewitnessesdi00armf/page/55/mode/1up

Matthew Arnold
http://books.google.com/books?id=vbEHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA221
Theophylact "the union of the human and divine natures in Christ" Christology - "water and blood, word and spirit" DIFFERENT

American Ecclesiastical Review, Volume 17 (1897)
Thomas Joseph Lamy
https://books.google.com/books?id=EAPOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA479

On the other hand, it must be acknowledged that the two interpreters of Holy Writ, Theophylactus and Oecumenius, who have commented on the First Epistle of St.John, had not that verse in their copies and did not know it. The proof is that they pass it by in silence and go directly from verse 6 to verse 8.
 
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Cornelius Lapide
https://books.google.com/books?id=IYM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA248
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Barnes on 1 John 5

(4) many expositors suppose that the reference is to the baptism of Jesus, and that by his "coming by water and blood," as by the latter there is undoubted reference to his death, so by the former there is reference to his baptism, or to his entrance on his public work. Of this opinion were Tertullian, OEcumenius, Theophylact, among the fathers, and Capellus, Heumann, Stroth, Lange, Ziegler, A. Clarke, Bengel, Rosenmuller, Macknight, and others, among the moderns. A leading argument for this opinion, as alleged, has been that it was then that the Spirit bare witness to him, Matthew 3:16, and that this is what John here refers to when he says, "It is the Spirit that beareth witness," etc. To this view, Locke urges substantially the following objections:
 
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Erasmus high view, calls him Vulgarius
https://books.google.com/books?id=hg9bLcQ8esoC&pg=PA14

"Erasmus mistakenly referred to him as "Vulgarius" in early editions of his New Testament."

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