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 some authors, it was during this time that the burlesque Spanish term " roto " ( torn ), used by Peruvians to refer to Chileans, was first mentioned given how Almagro's disappointed troops returned to Cuzco with their " torn clothes " due to the extensive and laborious passage on foot by the Atacama desert.

According to the following passage, Jesus talked to Barnabas and gave him a secret:

According to Lemley, it was only at this point that the term really began to be used in the United States ( which had not been a party to the Berne Convention ), and it did not enter popular usage until passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980.

According to Robert E. Van Voorst the overwhelming majority of scholars consider both the reference to " the brother of Jesus called Christ " and the entire passage that includes it as authentic.

According to Evans, if the passage had been an interpolation after the emergence of conflicts between Jews and Christians, it would have had a more accusative tone, but in its current form reads as one would expect it to read for a passage composed by Josephus towards the end of the first century.

According to this passage, the execution of John was blamed for a defeat Herod suffered c. 36 CE.

According to Robert Freitas of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, a typical blood borne medical nanorobot would be between 0. 5-3 micrometres in size, because that is the maximum size possible due to capillary passage requirement.

According to a scholiast, commenting on the passage in Argonautica, the island was first of all called Macris after the nurse of Dionysus who fled there from Euboea.

Consequently, Baen also makes its entire catalog available in multiple formats for downloading and typically prices electronic versions of its books at or below that of paperback editions — and makes a profit doing it .</ span > According to essays on Baen's science fiction e-magazine Jim Baen's Universe, also edited by Flint, the strategy is if anything, getting stronger and more fruitful with the passage of time, especially with the advent of e-book readers such as the Amazon Kindle, and the Barnes & Noble Nook.

According to legend, the Fairy Queen sometimes offered the branch to worthy mortals, granting them safe passage and food during their stay.

According to the Book of Ezra, “ the house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius .” In this passage, the word “ house ” refers to the second Temple.

According to some Bible critics who contextually read this passage, the description of Onan is an origin myth concerning fluctuations in the constituency of the tribe of Judah, with the death of Onan reflecting the dying out of a clan ; Er and Onan are hence viewed as each being representative of a clan, with Onan possibly representing an Edomite clan named Onam, mentioned by an Edomite genealogy in Genesis.

According to the ancient gnostics, this passage was to be interpreted as implying that the teachings of the son of man would automatically bring those who heard and fully understood them ( the elect ) together.

According to the report of her findings, which Michal gave to Dayan after having been lifted back through the shaft, there are 16 steps leading down into the passage, which is 1 cubit wide, and high.

According to Sack, Geisel claimed to quote a passage that doesn't exist in the book.

According to Julius von Payer, one of the leaders, the journey was to find the north-eastern passage.

According to Müller, the state of Elis in Arcadia, allies of the Aetolians, provided a guide ( Oxylus ) for passage through Arcadia after crossing the Gulf of Corinth from Naupactus.

According to the official state publication Pennsylvania Local Government, Sullivan County was named for Pennsylvania state senator Charles C. Sullivan, who " took an active part in procuring passage of the bill " establishing the county.

According to late 20th century research, Custer's ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, who followed the first thirteen immigrant German families from Krefeld and surroundings, had emigrated to North America around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatine refugees whose passage was arranged by the English government of Queen Anne to gain settlers.

According to ancient historian Meander Protector, a minor official in Justinian's court, there were 12 points to the treaty, stated in the following passage:

According to polls conduced by mainstream media, most Japanese people had perceived " Kimigayo " as the national anthem even before the passage of the Act on National Flag and Anthem in 1999.

According to Article 91, within fifteen days of passage of a bill by the Cortes Generales, the king shall give his assent and publish the new law.

According to Nonnus, Ampelos was gored to death by a wild bull after he mocked the goddess Selene, a scene described as follows:

According to the Dionysiaca of Nonnos, Iris ' brother is Hydaspes ( book XXVI, lines 355-365 ).

According to Greek source, the original name of the Lydian kingdom was Maionia ( Μαιονία ), or Maeonia: Homer ( Iliad ii.

According to the reference syntax, letter-case ( upper-or lower -) is not distinguished in tag names, thus the three tags: ( i ), ( ii ), and ( iii ) are equivalent.

According to Tacitus ( ii. 97 ), his rule was " infamous and odious " but according to Suetonius ( Vesp.

According to The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought, the Right has gone through five distinct historical stages: ( i ) the reactionary right, which sought a return to aristocracy and established religion ; ( ii ) the moderate right, who sought limited government and distrusted intellectuals ; ( iii ) the radical right, who favored a romantic and aggressive nationalism ; ( iv ) the extreme right, who proposed anti-immigration policies and implicit racism ; and ( v ) the neo-liberal right, who sought to combine a belief in a market economy and economic deregulation with the traditional Right-wing beliefs in patriotism, élitism, and law and order.

According to Plutarch, Plato gave the problem to Eudoxus and Archytas and Menaechmus, who solved the problem using mechanical means, earning a rebuke from Plato for not solving the problem using pure geometry ( Plut., Quaestiones convivales VIII. ii, 718ef ).

According to the Passion, a number of catechumens, were arrested for their faith and executed at the military games in celebration of the Emperor Geta's birthday ( chapter ii ).

According to the doctrine of Calvin ( Instit., III, ii, 4 ) good works are " impurities and defilement " ( inquinamenta et sordes ), but God covers their innate hideousness with the cloak of the merits of Christ, and imputes them to the predestined as good works in order that He may requite them not with life eternal, but at most with a temporal reward.

According to Eusebius, Theophilus quoted the Book of Revelation in his work against Hermogenes ; a very precarious allusion has been seen in ii.

According to Liutprand of Cremona ( Antapodosis, ii.

According to a legend in a midrash, Orpah was a sister of Ruth, and both were daughters of the Moabite King Eglon ( Ruth R. ii.

According to its current IUCN classification EN C2a ( ii ), fewer than 2500 adult birds remain, and most of these are found in the region where the borders of China, North Korea and Russia meet.

According to Atrahasis III ii. 40 – 47 the flood hero was at a banquet when the storm and flood began: “ He invited his people … to a banquet … He sent his family on board.

According to Aristotle ( Poetics, ii.

According to Horace ( Epistles, ii 1.

According to Herodotus ( Histories ii ), he was murdered in a plot and later revenged by his sister Nitocris.

According to this author, The Martyrdom consists of: i. 1-2a, 6b-13a ; ii.

According to Mills, the governing elite in the US primarily draws its members from three areas: ( i ) the highest political leaders ( including the president ) and a handful of key cabinet members and close advisers ; ( ii ) major corporate owners and directors ; and ( iii ) high-ranking military officers.

According to Jacob Stein's treatise on asset protection, common provisions enacted among some, but not all, of these countries are: ( i ) there is no recognition of foreign judgments with respect to trusts ; ( ii ) there is a very short statute of limitations on fraudulent transfers ; ( iii ) to establish a fraudulent transfer the creditor must show that the debtor was insolvent, and must establish the debtor's intent to " hinder, delay or defraud " beyond a reasonable doubt ; ( iv ) the anti-duress provisions are incorporated into the statutes ; and ( v ) spendthrift protection is extended to self-settled trusts.

According to the rolls of parliament ( ii.