Erasmus used the verse in Ratio seu methodus compendio perveniendi ad veram theologiam in 1518.

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Erasmus on literature : his Ratio or 'System' of 1518/1519 : (Ratio verae theologiae)
Mark Vessey (editor); Robert D. Sider (editor); Anthony Grafton (editor)
University of Toronto Press, Erasmus studies, Toronto [Ontario]; Buffalo; London, 2021

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Erasmus used the verse in Ratio seu methodus compendio perveniendi ad veram theologiam in 1518.

Erasmus on literature : his Ratio or 'System' of 1518/1519 : (Ratio verae theologiae) Mark Vessey (editor); Robert D. Sider (editor); Anthony Grafton (editor) University of Toronto Press, Erasmus studies, Toronto [Ontario]; Buffalo; London, 2021 p. 181 p. 196
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Erasmus and the Middle Ages: The Historical Consciousness of a Christian Humanist (2001)
István Pieter Bejczy
https://books.google.com/books?id=MxLV1yVyT7sC&pg=PA37

His opinion is particularly clear from his Ratio verae theologiae (1519). In this work Erasmus divided sacred history into five epochs. First came the age of Old Testament law. Next followed the age of John the Baptist, when the law was moderated in a spirit foreshadowing Christ. The third period belonged to Christ himself, who taught the true precepts of religion. In the fourth period Christianity, now spread over the world, was protected by the emperors. New laws which seemed at odds with the commandments of Christ were introduced. In the final period the church fell away from the Christian spirit altogether. Thus the degeneration of the church had its roots in the fourth period, which started, as we must assume, with Constantine.21

21 Holborn 199-201 /LB V 87A-88C; see also Cornells Augustijn, Erasmus: His Life, Works, an Influence (Toronto 1991), 85; Chomarat, “La philosophic dc l’histoire d’Erasme”, 164. For Petrarch the Middle Ages indeed set in with Constantine, see Ferguson, The Renaissance in Historical Thought, 8.
 
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Biblical Criticism in Early Modern Europe (2016)
Grantley McDonald
https://books.google.com/books?id=Q6BODAAAQBAJ&pg=PA17

Erasmus was aware of the importance attached to this verse in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century apologetic. He may have expected opposition to his excision of the comma, for he quoted it in his devotional Brief method for attaining true theology (Ratio seu methodus compendio perveniendi ad veram theologiam, 1519) to support his argument that all believers are in union with God, and share in the unity of the godhead itself. Indeed, his wording of the comma in the Methodus (complete with his signature translation of sermo instead of verbum) resembles that which appeared subsequently in his 1521 monoglot Latin New Testament and in the 1522 diglot.13

Erasmus 1519c, 110; Erasmus 1933, 258-259; Erasmus 1521a, 475. Cf. Semler 1764, 49.
 
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