The phrase "as the first text" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that is being compared or related to an initial piece of text or information.
Example: "The author refers to the previous chapter as the first text that laid the foundation for the entire argument."
Alternatives: "as the initial text" or "as the primary text".
Metaphrase is said to create "formal equivalence" between two texts -- inasmuch as each word in the first text is semantically mirrored by a corresponding word in the second text -- whereas paraphrase is said to create "dynamic equivalence," meaning that the whole sense of the first text is mirrored in the second text even if the words themselves are different.
Augustine interpreted the first text as literally identifying love with the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Christian Trinity (De Trinitate, VI, 5, p. 207).
As the second text in the Khuddaka Nikaya ("Short Collection") of the Sutta Pitaka ("Basket of Discourse"), the Dhammapada contains 423 stanzas arranged in 26 chapters.
Under normal circumstances, this would have gladdened Mike's heart, but these were far from normal circumstances, as the second text demonstrated.
I said, thinking which books, I pointed out the Bible as one of the first texts I read, and I think reading various books undoubtedly leaves you knowledge, lessons.
After all, as the show's first text panel announces, "Everything has a skin," and the human one is an inspirational model of flexibility, efficiency and complexity.
At the time of the ratification of the Fourth Amendment, it was generally understood that each person had a protected property interest not just in the things he owned, but first, as the Fourth Amendment text makes clear, in his "person".
The book was described by the Centre as "the first introductory level text to offer an accessible overview on the status of animals in contemporary political theory".
