Papyrus 7 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), or ε 11 ( von Soden), designated by , is an early copy of the New Testament in

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. It is a

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of the

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4:1-2. Possibly it is a patristic fragment (like e.g. P. Oxy. 405, fragment of ''

Against Heresies ''Against Heresies'' (Koine Greek: Ἔλεγχος καὶ ἀνατροπὴ τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως, ''Elenchos kai anatropē tēs pseudōnymou gnōseōs'', "Refutation and Overthrowal of Knowledge falsely so-called"), som ...

'' by

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containing

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3:16-17). The manuscript had been difficult to date palaeographically, because of its fragmentary condition. It had been assigned to the 4th–6th century (or even the 3rd century).

Text

The Greek text of this codex is too brief to classify (possibly it is a representative of the

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). Aland did not place it in any of

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examined the manuscript in 1903 in Kiev.

Location

It is currently housed at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Petrov 553) in

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Digital image of P7
at

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