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Does this quote from Origen prove the Bible is corrupt?

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> The differences among the manuscripts have become great, either > through the negligence of some copyists or through the perverse > audacity of others; they either neglect to check over what they have > transcribed, or, in the process of checking, they make additions or > deletions as they please (Origen, Commentary on Matthew 15.14 as quoted in Bruce M. Metzger, "Explicit References in the Works of Origen to Variant Readings in New Testament manuscripts," in Biblical and Patristic Studies in Memory of Robert Pierce Casey, ed. J Neville Birdsall and Robert W. Thomson (Freiburg: Herder, 1968), 78—79; reference from Erhman, 223._ According to Bruce Metzger this indicated that all the manuscripts at Orgien's time were corrupt > Origen suggests that perhaps all of the manuscripts existing in his > day may have become corrupt.... (Bruce Metzger, The Text of the New > Testament. Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (second > edition 1979; first edition 1964), 152; citing Metzger, “Explicit > references in the works of Origen to Variant Readings in New Testament > Manuscripts,” in Biblical and Patristic Studies in Memory of Robert > Pierce Casey, ed. J.N. Birdsall (1963): 78–95.)
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