According to the preface the purpose of Luke is to write a historical account, while bringing out the theological significance of the history.

" According to the preface the author had been " many years since deceased " and was " highly preferred in the Church of Rome.

According to the preface to the Code, " From 1897 to 1907 a commission was engaged in an effort to codify the great mass of accumulating legislation.

According to the preface of a book by the Swedish critic Olof Lagercrantz, Swedenborg wrote to his benefactor and brother-in-law Eric Benzelius that he believed he ( Swedenborg ) might be destined to be a great scientist.

According to the preface, the work is a romance and not a historical novel, because the author neither " dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historical novel.

According to Vitruvius ( vii., preface ) he lived during the age of Ptolemy Philadelphus, by whom he was crucified as the punishment of his criticisms on the king ; but this account should probably be rejected as a fiction based on Zoilus ' reputation.

According to her own history included as a preface to one of the books, her first words were " cauliflower penis ".

According to Lu Fayan's preface, the initial plan of the work was drawn up 20 years earlier in consultation with a group of scholars, 3 from southern China and 5 from the north.

According to the preface, Book VI is intended to resolve difficulties occurring in the so-called " lesser astronomical works " ( μίκρός άστρονομούμενος ), i. e. works other than the Almagest.

According to the NASB's preface, the translators had a " Fourfold Aim " in this work:

According to St. Melito in the 2nd century AD, it was considered canonical by Jews and Christians, and a Hebrew translation of the Wisdom of Solomon is mentioned by Naḥmanides in the preface to his commentary on the Pentateuch.

According to the preface of the New King James Version ( p. v-vi ), the NKJV uses the 1967 / 1977 Stuttgart edition of the Biblia Hebraica for the Old Testament, with frequent comparisons made to the Ben Hayyim edition of the Mikraot Gedolot published by Bomberg in 1524 – 25, which was used for the King James Version.

According to Fihrist's brief preface, it is meant to be an index of all books written in Arabic, whether by Arabs or others.

According to the book's preface, under 100 copies were made by the author.

According to Stuart Jones's preface to the ninth ( 1925 ) edition, the creation of the Lexicon was originally proposed by David Alphonso Talboys, an Oxford publisher.

According to the preface of the first edition, reprinted in subsequent editions, Capra struggled to reconcile theoretical physics and Eastern mysticism and was at first " helped on my way by ' power plants '" or psychedelics, with the first experience " so overwhelming that I burst into tears, at the same time, not unlike Castaneda, pouring out my impressions to a piece of paper.

According to its preface, it was written in the reign of Emperor Takakura and 2nd year of Kaō or 1170.

According to the preface of his 1571 publication of organ tablature he traveled to foreign lands to study, but he gave no specifics.

According to Clarke's preface to the book, the book was his third collection of short stories, which were written between 1953 and 1957 in such diverse spots as New York, Miami, Colombo, London and Sydney.

According to the preface to the book State and Salvation: " One of the results of the Witnesses ' legal battles was the long process of discussion and debate that led to the Charter of Rights, which is now part of the fundamental law of Canada.

According to Ward Wheelock who wrote a preface to the 1952 book, This I Believe was launched in 1949 at a business luncheon of four men ( Murrow being one, but he did not name the other three.

According to its preface, Clotel is a polemic narrative against slavery written for a British audience:

According to Serle in his preface:

According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

On TV shows based in Chicago such as The Bob Newhart Show, Married ... with Children, Family Matters, Still Standing, According to Jim, Early Edition and The Bernie Mac Show, the main characters are all Bears fans, and have worn Bears ' jerseys and t-shirts on some occasions.

According to Robert W. Peterson in his book Pigskin The Early Years of Pro Football, the " passer was George W. ( Peggy ) Parratt, probably the best quarterback of the era ", who played for the Massillon, Ohio Tigers, one of pro football's first franchises.

Early on, the gospel was given the title Gospel According to Luke (, kata Loukan euangelion, or, to euangelion kata Loukan ).

According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, " The artifacts recovered from inside the building were few and mostly included fragments of pottery vessels from the Early Roman period ( the first and second centuries AD )... Another hewn pit, whose entrance was apparently camouflaged, was excavated and a few pottery sherds from the Early Roman period were found inside it.

According to Rabbi Michael J. Cook, Professor of Intertestamental and Early Christian Literature at the Hebrew Union College, there are ten themes in the New Testament that are the greatest sources of anxiety for Jews concerning Christian antisemitism.

According to Cooper there was " Early Cubism ", ( from 1906 to 1908 ) when the movement was initially developed in the studios of Picasso and Braque ; the second phase being called " High Cubism ", ( from 1909 to 1914 ) during which time Juan Gris emerged as an important exponent ; and finally Cooper referred to " Late Cubism " ( from 1914 to 1921 ) as the last phase of Cubism as a radical avant-garde movement.

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 the Early Irish law text on status, Uraicecht Becc, bards were a lesser class of poets, not eligible for higher poetic roles as described above.

According to historian John M. Taylor: " Early in 1639 the General Court granted a commission to Ludlow to begin a plantation at Pequannocke.

According to this theory, Early Romani ( as spoken in the Byzantine Empire ) was brought to western and other parts of Europe through population migrations of Rom in the 14th-15th centuries.

According to a UCI obituary, during his wait for a supernova to explode, he put signs on some of his large neutrino detectors, calling them " Supernova Early Warning Systems ".

According to one of Marshall Berman's books ( Berman 1982, 16 – 17 ), modernity is periodized into three conventional phases ( dubbed " Early ," " Classical ," and " Late ," respectively, by Peter Osborne ( 1992, 25 ):

According to Gary Giddins ' book Bing Crosby – A Pocketful of Dreams – The Early Years 1903-1940, in 1925 she secured work for her brother, Al Rinker, and his partner Bing Crosby.

According to James Tabor this Eastern Orthodox picture of Particular Judgment is similar to the 1st-century Jewish and Early Christian concept that the dead either " Rest in Peace " in the Bosom of Abraham ( mentioned in the Gospel of Luke ) or suffer in Hades.

According to an entry in the Annals of the Four Masters for AD 123, there were five principal highways () leading to Tara () in Early Medieval Ireland.

According to Finnish child development specialist Eeva Hujala, " Early education is the first and most critical stage of lifelong learning.

According to an inscription in Kannada dated 1162 A. D., it was built by the Early Chalukya king Vijayaditya and was named Vijayeshvara.

According to Fillion, he is descended from Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early.

According to Iron Maiden's The Early Days DVD, he was introduced to the band by drummer Doug Sampson, an old friend of Harris ' from his days in the band ' Smiler '.

According to most scholars, Early Christianity was a Jewish eschatological faith.

According to the story in Dallas: The Early Years J. R. was born in September 1935 on the family's Southfork Ranch in Parker, Texas.

According to Tim Darnell, who wrote The Crackers: Early Days of Atlanta Baseball, the Cubs changed their name to the Black Crackers because fans had already begun to call them by that name.