In the beginning was the Son, and the Son was with the Father, and the Son was the Father.

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From The Doctrine of the Trinity Not Comprised in “the Faith which was Once Delivered Unto the Saints" by Fletcher Blakeley 1846

No part of Scripture has, I believe, been more insisted on as furnishing proof of the doctrine of the Trinity, than the introduction to the Gospel according to John:—“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.” Several very distinguished divines consider these terms as spoken of God himself, who called all things into existence by the word of his mouth; and who is represented in the third verse as having brought to pass all things connected with the Christian dispensation. This rendering is adopted by a number of the most eminent Greek scholars, who assert that the term which is translated “was made,” occurs hundreds of times in the original language of the New Testament, but never in the sense of create. I shall, however, for the present, take the usual interpretation of Trinitarians, allowing them to think of the conclusion, which is the unavoidable result of their own premises. They must remember, then, that they are not, according to their tenets, to confound the persons of the Godhead;— that is, they are not to put the Son for the Father, nor either for the Holy Spirit. They tell us, that by the Word is meant the Son; if so, the conclusion, to which this interpretation will bring them, is destructive of their theory. The meaning will be,—“In the beginning was the Son, and the Son was with the Father, and the Son was the Father.” By using the term person, the same result will unavoidably follow:—“In the beginning was the second person, and the second person was with the first person, and the second person was the first person.” Let our orthodox logicians calmly look at the conclusion to which their own premises bring them:—a conclusion which completely nullifies their doctrine of three persons. This text, after all, contains no language that would lead an unprejudiced reader even to suspect it of comprising within it anything about a Trinity.