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Its enormous significance is to confirm the earlier authenticity of later, more complete manuscripts that match its style and content.

Its enormous significance is to confirm the earlier authenticity of later, more complete manuscripts that match its style and content.

There is a rival claim, not widely accepted, that some fragments of the [[Gospel of Matthew]] dated from the 1st century itself, and thus are even earlier than Papyrus 52.<ref>https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/libraries-and-archives/illuminating-magdalen/news/magdalen-papyrus/</ref>

There is a rival claim, not widely accepted, that some fragments of the [[Gospel of Matthew]] date from the 1st century itself, and thus are even earlier than Papyrus 52.<ref>https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/libraries-and-archives/illuminating-magdalen/news/magdalen-papyrus/</ref>

==References==

==References==

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[[category:Bible]]

[[category:Bible]]

[[category:Papyrus]]

[[category:Papyrus]]