Concerning Ephesians 2: 8 which states: " For by grace are ye saved through faith ; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God ", it is noted that the word " it " is a pronoun and refers back to a noun.

Early post-reformation writings, including Zacharius Ursinus ( 1534 – 1583 ) in Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism ( published posthumously, 1591 ), Caspar Olevianus ( 1536 – 1587 ) in Concerning the Substance of the Covenant of Grace between God and the Elect ( De substantia foederis gratuiti inter deum et electos, 1585 ), and Scottish Theologian Robert Rollock ( 1555 – 1599 ) in A Treatise of our Effectual Calling ( Tractatus de vocatione efficaci, 1597 ), developed the covenant of works and covenant of grace scheme along the lines of the law-gospel distinction.

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

Concerning " free will ", most early modern philosophers, including Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke and Hume believed that the term was frequently used in a wrong or illogical sense, and that the philosophical problems concerning any difference between " will " and " free will " are due to verbal confusion ( because all will is free ):

Concerning Mr. al-Arian, a sometime rallying point for advocates of free speech and academic freedom, the verdict is in: He is not only a terrorist supporter, but a liar, too.

Concerning the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, Tatchell spoke at an event whose organisers termed a " Rally for free expression " defending the publication of cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and in support for free speech in general.

Concerning Jewish holy sites, Jordan breached its commitment to appoint a committee to discuss, among other topics, free access of Jews to the holy sites under its jurisdiction, mainly in the Western Wall and the important Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, as provided in the Article 8. 2 of the Cease Fire Agreement between it and Israel dated April 3, 1949.

Concerning marriage, the people of Nowhere practice monogamy but are free to pursue romantic love because they are not bound by a contractual marriage.

Concerning the questions of free musical speech and how to combine and balance improvisation and composition, Andreas Paolo Perger studied with Evan Parker, Frederic Rzewski and the late Wolfgang Stryi during a master class with the title " to compose-to improvise-to interpret " of the Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt.

Concerning the behavior of a prince toward his subjects, Machiavelli announces that he will depart from what other writers say, and writes:

Concerning numbers 1, 2 and 5 he proclaimed: " ignoramus et ignorabimus ": " we do not know and will not know.

Concerning the need for righteousness, Jesus says " I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Sex manuals were also written such as The Perfumed Garden, Ṭawq al-Ḥamāmah or The Dove's Neckring by ibn Hazm and Nuzhat al-albab fi-ma la yujad fi kitab or Delight of Hearts Concerning What will Never Be Found in a Book by Ahmad al-Tifashi.

Concerning a single measurable characteristic affecting all mental ability, analysis of any group of intelligence test scores will nearly always show them to be highly correlated.

* Concerning the importance of chance to happiness, Aristotle argues that a happy person at work in accordance with virtue " will bear what misfortune brings most beautifully and in complete harmony in every instance ".

Concerning the release date, Shinoda stated " we will be releasing it in a DVD / CD combo pack as soon as we can get it done ".

Concerning future projects, Jeremy Enigk has stated on the official message board that he imagines " The Fire Theft will be back in full swing.

In gardens they will ask one another Concerning the guilty: What hath brought you to this burning?

Concerning the issue of blood transfusions, the Federal Constitutional Court has held that transfusing blood to an unconscious Jehovah's Witness violated the person's will, but did not constitute a battery.

Concerning color and density, a heartstone will vary from dragon to dragon, the most common color is a shade between black and red, but heartstone colors ranging from yellow to violet have been recorded.

Concerning the design, Lancia ´ s chief designer said " People will be looking for excuses not to buy this car.

Concerning Antianeira and Andromache, see below ; for almost all the other names on the list, this is a unique attestation.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in 1748.

Athanasius ' letters include one " Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea " ( De Decretis ), which is an account of the proceedings of that council, and another letter in the year 367 which was the first known listing of the New Testament including all those books now accepted everywhere as the New Testament.

Concerning the liberal use of the death penalty in the Draconic code, Plutarch states: " It is said that Drakon himself, when asked why he had fixed the punishment of death for most offences, answered that he considered these lesser crimes to deserve it, and he had no greater punishment for more important ones.

In response to the early-to-mid-17th century " continental rationalism " John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ) proposed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689 ) a very influential view wherein the only knowledge humans can have is a posteriori, i. e., based upon experience.

* 1632 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.

The country also is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

Concerning birds, a list of non-kosher species is given in the Torah.

Kiribati is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

In another paper of 1924, named " Concerning the Aether ", Einstein argued that Newton's absolute space, in which acceleration is absolute, is the " Aether of Mechanics ".

Concerning the details, however, there is often variance: decisions may be based on various of the standardized codes of Jewish Law that have been developed over the centuries, as well as on the various responsa.

Concerning privacy laws of the United States, privacy is not guaranteed per se by the Constitution of the United States.

Concerning the various funk motifs, Stewart states: " This model, it should be noted, is different from a time line ( such as clave and tresillo ) in that it is not an exact pattern, but more of a loose organizing principle.

However the protocols mentioned apply only to radio SETI rather than for METI ( Active SETI ) The intention for METI is covered under the SETI charter " Declaration of Principles Concerning Sending Communications with Extraterrestrial Intelligence ".

Concerning the social and development indicators, Thailand is recognized by the World Bank as “ one of the great development success stories ”.

As early as the fifth century BC, Protagoras, who is reputed to have been exiled from Athens because of his agnosticism about the existence of the gods, said that " Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life.

In fact, our modern idea of the theory is mostly attributed to John Locke's expression of the idea in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in the 17th century.

The Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or Their Transboundary Fluxes is an agreement to provide for the control and reduction of emissions of volatile organic compounds in order to reduce their transboundary fluxes so as to protect human health and the environment from adverse effects.

Concerning this last typology, Kintsch, Patel and Ericsson consider that every reader is able to form an episodic text structure during text comprehension, if the text is well written and if the content is familiar.

* February 22 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.