From habitually trusting, we shall entertain inveterate distrust.

We have ascertained his character.

We thought he was a faithful witness, but we now find from experience of his transgressions that we have fallen into bad company.

His witness may be false no less than true: confidence is at an end.
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4.
It may be regarded as certain that most of the aberrations discoverable in Codexes of the Sacred Text have arisen in the first instance from the merest inadvertency of the scribes.