According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

) According to the Muratorian fragment, Marcion's canon contained an epistle entitled Epistle to the Laodiceans which is commonly thought to be a forgery written to conform to his own point of view.

* According to a fragment of Philochorus, the " winner " of the ostracism must have obtained at least 6, 000 votes.

According to it the staff is a fragment of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and was successively in the possession of Shem, of the three Patriarchs, and of Judah, just as in the Jewish legend.

According to a surviving fragment from a work (" Brothers ") by the comic playwright Philemon, Solon established publicly funded brothels at Athens in order to " democratize " the availability of sexual pleasure.

According to tradition at Texas Tech University, a stone fragment on display since 1939 outside the old Electrical Engineering Building is a missing piece of the Blarney Stone.

According to Sir William Crookes the original, uncut diamond was itself " a fragment, probably less than half, of a distorted octahedral crystal ; the other portions still await discovery by some fortunate miner.

According to the sheet music, it was " written around a Fort Niagara fragment " by Robert Lloyd, " Army song leader.

According to The Catholic Encyclopaedia, lines of the Muratorian fragment are preserved in " some other manuscripts ", including codices of Paul's Epistles at the abbey of Monte Cassino.

According to the TV series Mayday, because a fragment of Burke's fingertip was recovered with the gun, it indicated that he was alive and holding the gun until impact.

# According to fragment 1, The One did not come to be.

# According to fragment 1, The One did not have a beginning.

According to a fragment of parchment Alex and Thomas find among Dominic's books, the dagger is to be plunged into the Sin Eater while reciting a text in Aramaic.

According to Strabo he increased the number of strings in the lyre from four to seven ; others take the fragment of Terpander on which Strabo bases his statement to mean that he developed the citharoedic nomos ( sung to the accompaniment of the cithara or lyre ) by making the divisions of the ode seven instead of four.

According to Harris, Anthon wrote Harris a letter of authenticity declaring the fragment to contain true Egyptian characters.

According to Gödel's incompleteness theorem, these systems cannot contain the theory of Peano arithmetic, and in fact, not even the weak fragment of Robinson arithmetic ; nonetheless, they can contain strong theorems ; for instance there are self-verifying systems capable of proving the consistency of Peano arithmetic.

According to the partial translation he made, the new fragment spoke of a queen and great riches.

According to Ellison, it was partially inspired by a fragment of conversation that he mis-heard at a party at the home of actor Walter Koenig: " How is Jeff?

According to the orthodox Thomism of the Roman Catholic Church, Aristotle rightly regarded reason as a facility of the individual soul.

According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict amongst them, whereas previously characters had interacted only with the chorus.

According to Aristotle, the four elements rise or fall toward their natural place in concentric layers surrounding the center of the earth and form the terrestrial or sublunary spheres.

According to Aristotle, air is both hot and wet and occupies a place between fire and water among the elemental spheres.

According to Aristotle, water is both cold and wet and occupies a place between air and earth among the elemental spheres.

According to Aristotle, these four terrestrial elements are capable of inter-transformation and move toward their natural place, so a stone falls downward toward the center of the cosmos, but flames rise upward toward the circumference.

According to both Plato and Aristotle, Heraclitus was said to have denied the law of noncontradiction.

The Ancient Library of Alexandria According to the earliest source of information, the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas, the library was initially organized by Demetrius of Phaleron, a student of Aristotle, under the reign of Ptolemy I Soter ( ca. 367 BC — ca. 283 BC ).

According to Aristotle, legend held that Midas died of hunger as a result of his " vain prayer " for the gold touch.

According to some, Aquinas conflates the natural law and natural right, the latter of which Aristotle posits in Book V of the Nicomachean Ethics ( Book IV of the Eudemian Ethics ).

According to Aristotle, States are classified into monarchies, aristocracies, timocracies, democracies, oligarchies, and tyrannies.

According to Aristotle, this art of persuasion could be used in public settings in three different ways.

According to Aristotle, weight was the direct cause of the falling motion of an object, the speed of the falling object was supposed to be directly proportionate to the weight of the object.

According to Aristotle, the Spartan military culture was actually short-sighted and ineffective.

According to Aristotle, this concept was introduced by the Greek philosopher Protagoras.

According to Aristotle, the idea is paradoxical, both in theory and in nature.

According to Aristotle, the process of dividing a continuum need never come to an end.

According to some sources, around 367 he assumed headship of the Academy during Plato's period in Syracuse, and taught Aristotle.

According to Aristotle, Eudoxus put forward the following arguments for this position:

According to Aristotle, writing nearly two centuries later, Thespis was a singer of dithyrambs ( songs about stories from mythology with choric refrains ).

According to Aristotle, " the structure of the best tragedy should be not simple but complex and one that represents incidents arousing fear and pity -- for that is peculiar to this form of art.

According to Aristotle, " The change to bad fortune which he undergoes is not due to any moral defect or flaw, but a mistake of some kind.

According to Aristotle, Solon legislated for all citizens to be admitted into the Ekklesia and for a court ( the Heliaia ) to be formed from all the citizens.

According to Aristotle, only the Pentacosiomedimnoi were eligible for election to high office as archons and therefore only they gained admission into the Areopagus.

According to Herodotus the country was bound by Solon to maintain his reforms for 10 years, whereas according to Plutarch and the author of Athenaion Politeia ( reputedly Aristotle ) the contracted period was instead 100 years.