According to Jewish tradition the author was Samuel himself, but this idea is no longer regarded as tenable.

According to Samuel Angus ( 1920 ) gnosis in these early sects was distinct from the secret teachings revealed to initiates once they had reached a certain level of progression akin to arcanum.

According to Samuel Angus ( 1925 ) the gnostic sectarians also sought to reconcile the individual to their own personal deification ( henosis ), making each individual God.

In 1741, during the attack that led to Walpole's downfall, Samuel Sandys declared that " According to our Constitution we can have no sole and prime minister.

According to I Samuel 9: 9, the old name for navi is ro ' eh, ראה, which literally means " Seer ".

According to the Talmud there were also seven women who are counted as prophets whose message bears relevance for all generations: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Hannah ( mother of the prophet Samuel ), Abigail ( a wife of King David ), Huldah ( from the time of Jeremiah ), and Esther.

According to Samuel Colt, he came up with the idea for the revolver while at sea, inspired by the capstan winch, which had a ratchet and pawl mechanism on it, a version of which was used in his guns to rotate the cylinder.

According to, Samuel had told Saul to wait for seven days after which they would meet ; Samuel giving Saul further instructions.

According to the text of the Books of Samuel, he also anointed the first two kings of the Kingdom of Israel: Saul and David.

According to the genealogical tables, Elkanah was, a Levite, a fact otherwise not mentioned in the books of Samuel.

According to, Hannah named Samuel in memory of her requesting a child from God and God listening.

According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Samuel was about 12 years old.

According to the Book of Jeremiah, and one of the Psalms (), Samuel had a high devotion to God.

According to the historian Samuel H. Adams, Harding's death was mourned by the nation and the average citizen felt a " personal loss ".

According to the Early Office Museum, the first patent for a bent wire paper clip was awarded in the United States to Samuel B. Fay, in 1867.

According to Samuel Noah Kramer in The Sacred Marriage Rite, in late Sumerian history kings established their legitimacy by taking part in the ceremony in the temple for one night, on the tenth day of the New Year festival Akitu.

According to some authorities, the death of Agag, described in the Bible by the unusual word va-yeshassef (" hewed in pieces ," I Samuel 25. 33 ), was brought about in a much more cruel way than the word denotes.

According to author William Stevenson in A Man called Intrepid, his biography of Sir William Samuel Stephenson ( no relation ), the senior representative of British Intelligence for the western hemisphere during the Second World War, Stephenson postulated that the Germans knew about Howard's mission and ordered the aircraft shot down.

According to Samuel Decalo, a scholar on African government, Bokassa's personal ambitions played the most important role in his decision to launch a coup against Dacko.

According to the 1955 book, Zeb's Black Baby, by Samuel Thomas Peace Sr .:

According to Samuel Pepys, Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York used to run horses here.

According to local legend, a horse belonging to settler Joseph Russell went lame, stranding Russell, who was offered a replacement horse by another settler, Samuel Simmons.

According to one of several legends, the town was given its name by Colonel Samuel Chapman, whose family owned of land in Southern Maryland, including what would become the areas of La Plata and Port Tobacco.

According to Samuel T. Worcester's history which was commissioned by the town selectmen in 1878, the town was incorporated in the province of New Hampshire on April 3, 1746, " to have continence forever by the name of Holles ..."

According to Samuel Pepys, Chesterfield was a ladies ' man, and had been one of the many lovers of Barbara Villiers, the most notorious mistress of King Charles II.

According to Samuel Pepys, Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York used to run horses on the heath.

According to Samuel Pepys, for a few weeks at the end of 1663 ships from Hamburg and Amsterdam were quarantined for thirty days.

According to Samuel Pepys, he accepted the post only for the profit it brought.

According to Peter Jackson ( 2001 ), OKSL may have been the language used by a deaf boy described by 17th century British writer Samuel Pepys in his Diaries.

According to her later memoirs, Fátimih fell in love with ` Abdu ' l-Bahá on seeing him.

According to Genesis 25: 25, Isaac and Rebekah named the first son עשו, Esau (` Esav or ` Esaw, meaning " hairy " or " rough ", from, ` asah, " do " or " make "; or " completely developed ", from, ` assui ).

According to the memoirs of Juliet Thompson, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá also compared Mary to Juliet, one of his most devoted followers, claiming that she even physically resembled her and that Mary Magdalene was Juliet Thompson's " correspondence in heaven.

According to Juliet Thompson's diary, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá suggested that she marry Remey, and in 1909 asked her how she felt about it, reportedly requesting of her: “ Give my greatest love to Mr. Remey and say: You are very dear to me.

According to scripture, Nineveh was also the place where Sennacherib died at the hands of his two sons, who then fled to the land of ` rrt Urartu.

According to the framework of the Will and Testament of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, it was not possible to appoint a successor, and the legislative body " possessing the exclusive right to legislate on matters not explicitly revealed " was not yet established in the world.

According to its constitution, the Universal House of Justice itself states that " The provenance, the authority, the duties, the sphere of action of the Universal House of Justice all derive from the revealed Word of Bahá ' u ' lláh which, together with the interpretations and expositions of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and of Shoghi Effendi ... constitute the binding terms of reference of the Universal House of Justice and are its bedrock foundation.

According to Henry Bradley, ` Totila ' and ` Baduila ' are diminutives of ` Totabadws '.

According to mythology, the meaning of the name is ` Mythical father of Rhiannon ` and does not appear anywhere else.

According to a curriculum vitae written and signed in his own hand, in 1922 he graduated from the liberal arts ` Gymnasium ' in Dubno.

According to the Qur ' an, Tawhid, meaning literally unification or asserting the oneness of Allah ( to be the only God who deserves to be worshiped in truth and confirming all attributes with which He has qualified Himself or that are attributed to Him by His Messenger ), can be categorised into three tenets of theology ; Tawhid al Rubu ` biya, Tawhid al ` Uluhiyya and Tawheed-al-Asma was-Sifaat.

According to Arts and Crafts of Hawai ` i by Te Rangi Hiroa, old flutes in the Bishop Museum collection have a hole at the node area for the breath, and two or three fingering holes.

According to a 1965 NSA report, " RYE has made it possible for the agency to locate many more potentially exploitable cryptographic systems and ` bust ' situations.

According to Christopher de Bellaigue of the New York Review of Books, Ledeen has purveyed a " distorted analysis of events in Iran " to his readers, claiming, for example, in National Review online that there were ` something like a half a million ` Iranians demonstrating the death sentence of Hashem Aghajari on November 22, 2002 when in fact Bellaigue, in Iran on that date, observed only about 5000 students in the biggest demonstration.

According to Shuaib Afandi Bagini ad-Daghestani, ` Abdurrahman as-Sughuri had two ma ' zuns, i. e. Muhammad Haji ` Obodi ad-Daghestani and Ilyas Tsudakhari ad-Daghestani ( d1312 AH ).

According to Piffany, Elonan " Smells like the lead electric mandolinist for ` Crossbows and Roses `".

According to various sources Velasco's government bought between 600 to 1200 T-55 Main Battle Tanks, APC ` s, 60 to 90 Sukhoi 22 warplanes, 500, 000 assault rifles, and even considered the purchase of a British carrier Centaur-class light fleet carrier HMS Bulwark.