In the case of the Bible, however, we cannot correct the copies by reference to the original documents because the original documents have not survived. The original documents are sometimes called the autographs, but this term can be used properly only where the author actually wrote his own work. Thus, there never was an autograph of the Epistle to the Romans, for it was not Paul himself who wrote the epistle, but Tertius, at Paul’s dictation.4 The term “autograph” could rightly be applied only