484 AD-Victor of Vita/Victor Vitensis wrote many bishops quoted 1 John 5:7 to Arians in Council of Carthage
LatinπEt ut adhuc luce clarius unius divinitatis esse cum Patre et Filio Spiritum sanctum
doceamus, Ioannis evangelistae testimonio comprobatur. Ait namque: Tres sunt qui testimonium perhibent in coelo, Pater, Verbum, et Spiritus sanctus, et hi tres unum sunt. Nunquid, ait, tres in differenti aequalitate seiuncti,..sed tres, inquit, unum sunt.(Historia persecutionis Africanae Provinciae,II.82 Pgs 33 link & 34 link)
EnglishπAnd so that we may teach the Holy Spirit to be of one divinity with the Father and the Son still more clearly than the light, here is proof from the testimony of John the evangelist. For he says: 'There are three who bear
witness in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one.'
Surely he does he not say 'three separated by a difference in quality'..'No, he says
that the 'three are one.'(A History of the Vandal[/African] Province Persecution,2.8)
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