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I never said anything about major changes. Interpolations were usually pretty small, but it doesn't take much to significantly change the meaning of a segment. And if that change is found in a particularly popular manuscript, it will be more likely to be passed on, while a more correct, but less popular manuscript meets a dead end.
All of this is why we place more value on the older manuscripts than the vastly more plentiful newer ones. The quantity does not always overcome the lack of antiquity.
And we just don't have enough old manuscripts to ascertain what the autographs said.
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