Michael Maynard in 1991

In 1991, at the Dean Burgon Society general meeting, Maynard spoke about the defense of 1 John 5:7-8.

This was abut 4 years before he wrote his book on the topic in 1995 entitled A History of the Debate Over 1 John 5:7-8.

In the last section, it proves that he and the DBS knew that the concept of Erasmus' rash wager was bogus. So the recent book, Myths and Mistakes, by Elijah Hixson and Peter Gurry (and others) has just caught up with what the DBS knew 29 years ago. In fact it has been know for hundreds of years but now they seem to claim it as their own discovery via Henk De Jonge.