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If one makes the argument that "a word which is in every manuscript will
be taken as having been in the original," one is dealing with the
arbitrary and contingent fact that one has discovered some manuscripts and
not others. One would have to revise whenever a new MS was unearthed
(which is good), but one runs the danger and the probability that some MSS
will never be unearthed (and thus one will not be able to revise according
to them). Must we resign ourselves to the capriciousness of the selection
of MSS available to us?

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