equivalent of the children’s game of “telephone.” Protestants show themselves such severe critics of the unwritten means of Tradition only because they identify it with the transmission, by word of mouth alone, of teachings that seemed destined rapidly to lose their guarantee, since words are easily distorted, transformed and added to, whereas in the writings of the Apostles we come into contact with their teaching exactly as it left them, down to the very words they used.140 Rather, Congar explains,