sheer bulk of MS support for a reading. That the weight of MSS favors the Majority text-type is only to be expected: the later MSS, not surprisingly, have survived in greater numbers than earlier MSS, and it is these numerous later MSS that generally have a text which conforms to the ecclesiastical text of the Byzantine church. Just as the number of MSS is not a relevant argument for thoroughgoing eclectic criticism, neither is the age of a MS of particular significance. Unless one can be sure how