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Originally Posted by CalvinandHodges 
1) When an official copy of a text was made and approved the original was destroyed, and the copy of the original was considered authentic. This accounts for the lack of "ancient" mss in the Byzantine text-type. Both the Jewish Church in the OT and the Christian Church in the NT considered newer copies of the autographs more authoritative than older copies (since the older copies were considered destroyed).
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Excellent point. In that situation the copy would probably be considered better than the original because it had the same words but was without the decay.
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