Did Desiderius Erasmus add 1st John chapter 5 verses 7 and 8 to the New Testament?

Answer 1

A:1 John 5:7-8 is a passage now referred to as the 'Johannine Comma'. It is important because it is considered the biblical justification for the Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This passage is known to have been in the New Testament from the fifth century onwards, and therefore was not placed there by Desiderius Erasmus.

However, Erasmus did omit the passage from his first two Greek-language editions of the New Testament, because it was absent from the manuscripts he used at that stage, only adding the Johannine Comma to his third edition.