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 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 Early English Text Society the Cursor Mundi is a collection of poignant and vivid versions of stories arranged “ in an orderly, encyclopedic yet fundamentally digressive manner ”.

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 Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to the author of his biography in the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new humanism which was growing up within the church.

According to the 2nd-century AD author Aelian, Aeschylus's younger brother Ameinias helped acquit his brother by showing the jury the stump of the hand that he lost at Salamis, where he was voted bravest warrior.

According to Tom Roberts, author of Alex Raymond: His Life and Art ( 2007 ), Capp delivered a stirring speech that was instrumental in changing those rules.

According to this theory, the anonymous author attributed these events to Daniel, as prophecies that were witnessed by this writer in the 2nd century BCE.

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

According to Jewish tradition the author of Kings was Jeremiah, whose life overlapped the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.

According to F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, " the widely observed unity of form and point of view ... and general resemblance in linguistic detail throughout the sequence are broadly suggestive of the work of a single author ," though other scholars see Lamentations as the work of multiple authors.

" According to Yevgenii Pasternak, however, author Konstantin Paustovsky refused to attend the meeting.

According to medical intuitive and author, Caroline Myss, who described chakras in her work Anatomy of the Spirit ( 1996 ), " Every thought and experience you've ever had in your life gets filtered through these chakra databases.

According to David Feldman, an author of trivia books, " The only reason why cheesemakers colour their product is because consumers seem to prefer it ".

According to The General History of the Pirates, published more than 25 years after the event by an author whose very identity remains in dispute, Kidd made peaceful overtures to Culliford: he " drank their Captain's health ," swearing that " he was in every respect their Brother ," and gave Culliford " a Present of an Anchor and some Guns.

According to author Steven Levy, IBM had discovered differential cryptanalysis on its own, and the NSA was apparently well aware of the technique.

According to Mara Leveritt, investigative journalist and author of Devil's Knot, " Police records were a mess.

According to Iranian author Nabipour I., in medieval Persia, Avicenna ( 980-1037 ) provided a detailed account on diabetes mellitus in The Canon of Medicine ( c. 1025 ), " describing the abnormal appetite and the collapse of sexual functions and he documented the sweet taste of diabetic urine.

According to Louis Diat, the creator of vichyssoise and the author of the classic Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook: " There is a story that explains why the most important basic brown sauce in French cuisine is called sauce espagnole, or Spanish sauce.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

According to a writer cited by the author of the Easton's Bible Dictionary, this epistle

According to tradition and some early church writers, the author is Mark the Evangelist, the companion of the apostle Peter.

The Gospel According to Mark does not name its author.

According to Raymond E. Brown, it is not impossible that Luke was the author.

According to some, the author is unknown.

According to the majority view, the evidence against Luke's being the author is strong enough that the author is unknown.