As is usually the case with historical documents, the older something is, the fewer examples tend to survive. At the same time, older copies are generally believed to be more accurate renditions where variations exist. The thinking is that a fifth generation copy (written four hundred years after the original autograph) is likely to be far more accurate than a twelfth generation copy written fourteen hundred years after the original. TR/MT advocates would have us believe the exact opposite is true. Yet, the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are second-century copies predating the MT by hundreds of years, substantiated the accuracy of earlier non-majority text. The fact is that the MT are only a selection of Greek texts from a particular area of the world during a particular time period in only one of the many languages that the New Testament had been preserved in.
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