The phrase "an earlier text" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a text that was written or published before the current one being discussed.
Example: "In her analysis, she frequently references an earlier text that laid the groundwork for her arguments."
Alternatives: "a prior document" or "a previous work".
Jackson had woken up in the morning to see an earlier text message telling him he'd been bumped down in the order.
The UK will present a draft resolution to the UN security council next week calling for an immediate ceasefire in Yemen, after an earlier text condemning the funeral bombing was rejected by Russia as not strong enough.
However, a more accessible introduction to Spinoza's view of the relationship between God and nature can be found in his discussion of miracles in an earlier text, the Theologico-Political Treatise.
Like "An Octoroon," "Everybody" is both a response to and a dismantling of an earlier text: "The Somonyng of Everyman," a fifteenth-century morality play about Christian salvation and how to achieve it.
On encryption the committee amends an earlier text, proposed by the EU's executive body, the European Commission, to state: "[W]hen encryption of electronic communications data is used, decryption, reverse engineering or monitoring of such communications shall be prohibited.
At 2 52, in response to an earlier text frantically notifying the mission of ongoing attacks, a NATO representative texted back, "I'm sorry to hear that, I still do not know what happened".
The programme used in the present study is similar to an earlier text-messaging programme for smoking cessation, which was successfully tested in two pilot studies [ 19].
He also said relations had been damaged by the use of "lazy stereotypes" by western officials, and conceded that his own use of the labels "moderate" and "extremist" showed a lack of understanding that risked "undermining the force of our own argument", according to an early text of the remarks released by the Foreign Office.
The term occurs in the name of the Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana, an early text of Vedanta, which is not counted as an Upanishad but as an Aranyaka.
However, an early text (Caligula A.xiv) refers to Eormenred as 'king', suggesting either he was a junior king under Eorcenberht, or had a shared kingship.
An individual known as Ajaw K'uk Moo' (lord K'uk Moo') is referred to in an early text at Tikal and may well be the same person.
