Ehrman has asserted, “If we have very few early copies—in fact, scarcely any—how can we know that the text was not changed significantly before the New Testament began to be reproduced in such large quantities?”38 I am not sure what large quantities he is speaking about, since there are more MSS from the third century than there are from the fourth or fifth century.39 But how can we know? It is a legitimate question. There is a way to be relatively confident that the text of the fourth century looked