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Trinitarian formula
Some of the Church Fathers testified that Matthew wrote his gospel in Hebrew. The Trinitarian formula does not appear in the Shem-Tob Hebrew manuscript of Matthew. This Hebrew manuscript does not seem to have been copied from the Greek or Latin either. The omission of the command to baptize and the Trinitarian formula in the Shem-Tob manuscript contributes to the conclusion that the Trinitarian formula did not exist in the original manuscript of Matthew, but was a later addition.
Also:
In the fourth century, a group called the “Pneumatomacki,” who resisted recognizing “the Holy Spirit” as the third person of the Trinity, apparently used a text of Matthew that did not have the Trinitarian formula.
It is known that after the time of Emperor Theodosius (346-395), that writings that did not agree with the official position of the Catholic Church were to be sought out and destroyed.
The teaching of a Trinitarian formula word be something new in Orthodox Judaism, and there is no examples of Christ teaching the Apostles any such thing.
All of the New Testament teaches baptism in the name of Christ. The only place that teaches a different baptism is Matthew 28:19.
So the bottom line is this; there were bible text after the fourth century that did not have the Trinitarian formula.