88 Ulrich Victor (Oxford 21980) 126: „The use of two exemplars for checking helps us to understand how it comes about that those papyri of the New Testament which antedate (perhaps by no more than a century) the accepted crys- tallized tradition of the New Testament agree now with one branch, now with another, and destroy any argument there may be for the intrinsic su- periority of one branch over another. In consequence every variant must be considered individually and weighed as if it were a unique case. It must be assessed in the light of Greek usage, of the author’s own practice, of what is known about the subject from all other sources as well as the manuscript evidence about this particular author (Hervorhebung U.V.). This has been the practice of editors of papyri for some time past; it now becomes an imperative duty for all scholars.” In exemplarischer Weise war G. Zuntz, The Text of the Epistles. A Disquisition upon the Corpus Paulinum (London 1952, schon 1946 als Schweich Lecture vorgetragen) bei einem Teil des NT so vorgegangen. Dr. Ulrich VICTOR Königsweg 60 D - 14163 Berlin DEUTSCHLAND ulrichvictor7@aol.com