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Nor let it be conceived in disparagement of the great undertaking of Erasmus, that he was merely fortuitously right.

Had he barely undertaken to perpetuate the tradition on which he received the sacred text he would have done as much as could be required of him, and more than sufficient to put to shame the puny efforts of those who have vainly labored to improve upon his design.

[...] With respect to Manuscripts, it is indisputable that he was acquainted with every variety which is known to us, having distributed them into two principal classes, one of which corresponds with the Complutensian edition, the other with the Vatican manuscript.

And he has specified the positive grounds on which he received the one and rejected the other.