So though Christianity had been around for 500 years, it’s still “early”?
“This is an important and unexpected finding as it is one of the first recorded documents to use magic in the Christian context, while the first charm ever found to refer to the Eucharist – the Last Supper – as the manna of the Old Testament”.That's in quotes because it was in quotes in the above excerpt. I didn't notice the use of the word early up there. There are almost no surviving documents from earlier centuries, that is, nothing surviving in original.