often discover the true reading, for it frequently happens that what has been corrupted by chance in one is found intact in another.17 Now, granted that the Greek and Hebrew manuscripts are as corrupt as ours, does it follow that we are deprived of any hope of ever emending what is found to be corrupted in our manuscripts? Does it not happen frequently that from several faulty manuscripts—though not faulty in the same way—the true and genuine reading is found?18 How is this different than modern