In Book IX of John Milton's Paradise Lost, Satan is compared to a " will-o-the-wisp " in tempting of Eve to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil:

According to Islam, human works of art are inherently flawed compared to the work of God ; thus, it is believed by many that attempting to realistically depict the form of an animal or person is insolence to God.

He thought intensely about the Temptation of Christ, which he compared to his own spiritual condition, but drew strength from his conviction that God would support and preserve him.

The wide variety of usage of the word can be compared to the Sanskrit Deva and the Hebrew Elohim, which also refer to God, gods, angels or spirits.

While the Manifestations of God, or Major Prophets, are compared to the Sun, which produces its own heat and light, Minor Prophets are compared to the Moon which receives its light from the sun.

Oneness Pentecostalism can be compared to Sabellianism, or can be described as holding to a form of Sabellianism, as both are Nontrinitarian, and as both believe that Jesus was " Almighty God in the Flesh ", but they do not totally identify each other.

Combining his interests in mathematics and theology, he compared the Christian trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost with the three dimensions of space, and was attracted to the Hebrew conception of God as an absolute unity.

" An example of the latter would be George Herbert's " Praise ( 3 )," in which the generosity of God is compared to a bottle which (" As we have boxes for the poor ") will take in an infinite amount of the speaker's tears.

The Bible offers two explanations of name Yosef: first it is compared to the word asaf from the root /' sp /, " taken away ": " And she conceived, and bare a son ; and said, God hath taken away my reproach "; Yosef is then identified with the similar root / ysp /, meaning " add ":" And she called his name Joseph ; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.

In 1852, he wrote a small book, The Government of God, in which he compared and contrasted the secular and ecclesiastical political systems.

The phrase occurs independently as a Divine title in the Siddur, the traditional Jewish prayer book, where it poetically refers to the Divine protection of ancient King David and the anticipated restoration of his dynastic house, perhaps based on Psalm 18, which is attributed to David, and in which God is compared to a shield ( v. 31 and v. 36 ).

The conversation between Truman and Marlon at the bridge can be compared to one between Moses and God in the Book of Moses.

For example, in the Book of Isaiah, God is compared to a mother comforting her child, while in the Book of Deuteronomy, God is said to have given birth to Israel.

" Yes, when in mournful moments we want to strengthen and encourage our minds by contemplating those great men, your chosen instruments, who in severe spiritual trials and anxieties of heart kept their minds free, their courage uncrushed, and heaven open, we, too, wish to add our witness to theirs in the assurance that even if our courage compared to theirs is only discouragement, our power powerlessness, you, however, are still the same, the same mighty God who tests spirits in conflict, the same Father without whose will not one sparrow falls to the ground.

In his letters to Louvois, Saint-Mars describes Dauger as a quiet man, giving no trouble, " disposed to the will of God and to the king ", compared to his other prisoners who were either always complaining, constantly trying to escape, or simply mad.

The Carthaginian Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 220 ) compared Noah's dove, who " announced to the world the assaugement of divine wrath, when she had been sent out of the ark and returned with the olive branch " with the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove that descends in baptism, " bringing us the peace of God, sent out from the heavens ".

(" The wonder of his works displays the firmament " is the English text here, with word-order calqued from the German, but somewhat awkward compared to the Authorized Version's " And the firmament sheweth the handywork of God ".

The emperor in this period is frequently compared to Mosesor Zorobabel, or even as the “ pillar of fire ” which guides God ’ s people to the Promised Land, e. g. in a speech delivered by Theodore I Laskaris, written by Niketas Choniates.

Zendo can be compared to the card game Eleusis and the chess variant Penultima in which players attempt to discover inductively a secret rule thought of by one or more players ( called " God " or " Nature " in Eleusis and " Spectators " in Penultima ) who declare plays legal or illegal on the basis of their rules.

God may be satisfied because: He recognises that the persona's crime is the only way to keep Porphyria pure ; or, because He doesn't think her life and death are important compared to the persona's.

In his book The religions of China: Confucianism and Tâoism described and compared with Christianity published in 1880, he wrote that he encountered a mosque in Canton which had a placard denouncing footbinding, saying Islam did not allow it since it constituted violating the creation of God.

As an interesting side note, the breath of God, in Isaiah 30: 33, is compared to Brimstone: " The Breath of Jehovah, like a stream of Brimstone, doth kindle it.

* 1807 The System of Colonial Law compared with the eternal Laws of God, and with the Indispensable Principles of the British Constitution

He is at times compared with Saint Dunstan and his struggle with Satan.

This is probably meant to be compared to Lucifer's rebellion, as later on in the Circle Dante witnesses Satan.

Despite the town's relatively small area and population compared to other municipalities in the Phoenix metropolitan area, Paradise Valley is home to twelve resorts, making it one of Arizona's premiere tourist destinations.

Lindall's book Paradise Lost Illustrated ( poetry by John Milton ) has been compared to other Milton illustrators including William Blake.

Stein compared her work to James Joyce's Ulysses and to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

In a review of the Virtual Console version of the game, IGN compared the game to the original Super Mario Bros., saying that " The Lost Levels feels a lot like a fan-made hack – with platforming challenges that are just a bit too frustrating and don't flow as well as Mario 1, and graphics that seem like a downgrade as well.

On Metacritic, The Lost Age has an 86 % aggregate rating, compared to Golden Sun's 91 %.

In a 2009 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, " Lost in Transmission — FDA Drug Information That Never Reaches Clinicians ", it was reported that the largest of three Lunesta trials found that compared to placebo Lunesta " was superior to placebo " while it only shortened initial time falling asleep by 15 minutes on average.

Author Joley Wood compared " Lisa the Skeptic " to an alternate reality game, in analyzing the effects of watching the television program Lost on contemporary culture and our own perceptions of reality.

During the casting process, Shannon was compared to Paris Hilton, and Lost producer Damon Lindelof described her as a " bitch.

Lost Coasts gameplay disappointed Brad Shoemaker of GameSpot, who compared it to that of Half-Life 2 and considered them to be very similar, saying that it " isn't going to set the world on fire ".

* Lost Treasures from Iraq — Objects ( Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago ) ( pre-2003 b & w photo compared with colour photograph from 12 June 2003 )

He reports there that as Alexander of Epirus lay mortally wounded on the battlefield at Pandosia he compared his fortunes to those of his famous nephew and said that the latter " waged war against women ".

While the use of paracetamol, aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen and other NSAIDS concurrently with weak to mid-range opiates ( up to about the hydrocodone level ) has been said to show beneficial synergistic effects by combatting pain at multiple sites of action, several combination analgesic products have been shown to have few efficacy benefits when compared to similar doses of their individual components.

" What ," said Abbahu, " is my modesty as compared with that of R. Abba of Acre ( Acco ), who does not even remonstrate with his interpreter for interpolating his own comments in the lecturer's expositions.

Rando, senior vice president and general manager of Compaq Services, who had been said to be the heir-apparent to Pfieffer ; his division had performed strongly as it had sales of $ 1. 6 billion for the first quarter compared to $ 113 million in 1998, which met expectations and was anticipated to post accelerated and profitable growth going forward.

While Cernunnos was never assimilated, scholars have sometimes compared him functionally to Greek and Roman divine figures such as Mercury, Actaeon, specialized forms of Jupiter, and Dis Pater, the latter of whom Julius Caesar said was considered the ancestor of the Gauls.

It has been said that the Nova was crude compared to its competitors ; but it was quite effective and very fast for its day, at least at its low-cost end of the market.

The poll also reported that 36 percent believed Fox News delivers news with neither a conservative or liberal bias, compared with 37 percent who said NPR delivers news with no conservative or liberal bias and 32 percent who said the same of CNN.

In the Buddhist tradition, it is said that the Buddha compared these four truths to the footprints of an elephant: just as the footprints of all the other animals can fit within the footprint of an elephant, in the same way, all of the teachings of the Buddha are contained within the teachings on the four noble truths.

The latter hypothesis seems the more plausible evolution determinant as the surface area of the head is minute compared to the remainder of the body, thus the energy required in producing long hair for the express purpose of " optical " amplification of UV light reflected from the snow seems counterproductive ( however, it's very likely that the trait was sustained due to a nuanced combination of multiple influences, given that human hunting-skills and ingenuity were such by 50, 000 years ago that said benefits in terms of ' comfort ' could have alternatively been derived from constructing head and ear warmers of fur from prey, etc .).

Paisley concluded that " Whitacre's fraud case was minuscule as compared to the ADM case Whitacre cooperated with .” " Had it not been for the fraud conviction ," Paisley said, " he would be a national hero.

La Russa said, " I think it's fair to say he misunderstood how he compared to Royce in spring training ... When I and the coaches evaluated the play in spring training — the whole game — Royce started very slowly offensively and you could see him start to get better.

Any linear-chain heteropolymer can be said to have a " primary structure " by analogy to the usage of the term for proteins, but this usage is rare compared to the extremely common usage in reference to proteins.

Women experience significantly more partner violence than men do: 25 percent of surveyed women, compared with 8 percent of surveyed men, said they were raped and / or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or date in their lifetime ; 1. 5 percent of surveyed women and 0. 9 percent of surveyed men said they were raped and / or physically assaulted by such a perpetrator in the previous 12 months.

The Spanish exports grew 11. 5 % compared to October 2010, to reach 19. 394 million euros, the statement said.

* This minimal amount of information translates to a much smaller file size compared to large raster images ( the size of representation does not depend on the dimensions of the object ), though a vector graphic with a small file size is often said to lack detail compared with a real world photo.

In 1997, Ono compared Lennon to Mozart while McCartney, she said, more closely resembled his less-talented rival Salieri.

At a meeting of the Monday Club Powell said when someone compared him to Garnett, " Garnett, Alf Garnett?

EBM reviewer Bandolier said that P6 in two studies showed 52 % of patients with control having a success, compared with 75 % with P6.

Falun Gong was compared to " a rat crossing the street that everyone shouts out to squash " by Beijing Daily ; other officials said it would be a " long-term, complex and serious " struggle to " eradicate " Falun Gong.

Charles Burchfield, whom Hopper admired and whom he was compared to, said of Hopper, “ he achieves such a complete verity that you can read into his interpretations of houses and conceptions of New York life any human implications you wish .” He also attributed Hopper ’ s success to his “ bold individualism … In him we have regained that sturdy American independence which Thomas Eakins gave us, but which for a time was lost .” Hopper considered this a high compliment since he considered Eakins the greatest American painter.

This tendency can manifest in retrospective thinking as well: in a 2005 study, angry subjects said they thought the risks of terrorism in the year following 9 / 11 in retrospect were low, compared to what the fearful and neutral subjects thought.

With respect, however, to Antinous, who is compared with our Jesus, we shall not repeat what we have already said in the preceding pages.