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He has preserved them, what we have is the result of that preservation, scribes faithfully copying, as I mentioned there is very little in the way of changes across the centuries.

Bart Ehrmann has a great story in one of his books about the early scholars who rode out into the deserts looking for the ancient Greek manuscripts way back before Erasmus. He found a bunch of them in a bin of some monastery, they were using them as fire starter. He was rather excited about them so they hung on to them, and when the guy came back, the price for them was suddenly rather high. Way to go God!