The Vorlons shown on the series tend to be enigmatic, usually speaking only brief, cryptic phrases to beings from the younger species.

Among the mix of aphorisms, parables, brief polemics, narrative dialogue, biblical exegesis ( especially of Genesis ), and dogmatic propositions, Wesley T. Isenberg, the editor and translator of the text, has enumerated seventeen sayings ( logia ) attributed to Jesus, nine of which are citations and interpretations of Jesus ' words already found in the canonical gospels The new sayings, " identified by the formula introducing them (' he said ', ' the Lord said ', or ' the Saviour said ') are brief and enigmatic and are best interpreted from a gnostic perspective ," Isenberg has written in his Introduction to the text ( see link ).

A brief passage in The Big Four furnishes possible information about Poirot's birth or at least childhood in or near the town of Spa, Belgium: " But we did not go into Spa itself.

There is a brief reference to his love poetry in a passage by Cicero.

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

Chilton and Evans state that the general acceptance of the authenticity of the James passage lends support to the partial authenticity of the Testimonium in that the brief reference to " Jesus, who was called Christ " in Antiquities XX, 9, 1 " clearly implies a prior reference " and that " in all probability the Testimonium is that prior reference ".

In a brief passage written from Bunter's point of view in " Busman's Honeymoon " Bunter is seen, even in the privacy of his own mind, to be thinking of his employer as " His Lordship ".

Whether the passage is simply to provide a brief token, foreign witness of Solomon's wealth and wisdom, or whether there is meant to be something more significant to the queen's visit is unknown ; nevertheless the visit of the Queen of Sheba has become the subject of numerous stories.

A brief lull in exploration occurred while the mess of guidelines laid from Chamber 9 was sorted out until John Parker progressed first to the large, dry, inlet passage of Chamber 20 and thence followed the River Axe upstream to Chamber 22 where the way on appeared to be lost.

The passageway for each is vaulted, and has two aisles ( in the case of the triple gate, a third aisle exists for a brief distance beyond the gate ); the eastern aisle of the double gates and western of the triple gates reach the surface, the other aisles terminating some way before the steps – Warren believed that one aisle of each original passage was extended when the al-Aqsa Mosque blocked the original surface exits.

The major features of the Ionic order are the volutes of its capital, which have been the subject of much theoretical and practical discourse, based on a brief and obscure passage in Vitruvius.

Possibly the best source, however brief, on Standish's origins and early life is a short passage recorded by Nathaniel Morton, secretary of Plymouth Colony, who wrote in his New England's Memorial, published in 1669, that Standish:

She returned at the program's conclusion to offer a brief passage from the Bible or a famous quote that reflected upon the evening's story.

The message was clear and it was from God ; in a passage of Kitab al-Mubashshirāt Ibn ‘ Arabī admits that one evening in Mecca he experienced a brief spell of despondency on the face of his disciples, he thought of leaving all counselling, abandon men to their fate and to devote his future efforts to himself alone as those who truly enter the Path are rare.

His career included a brief stint in the Office of House-Elf Relocation, a transfer to the Beast Division, the creation of the Werewolf Register in 1947, the 1965 passage of the Ban on Experimental Breeding, and many research trips for the Dragon Research and Restraint Bureau.

Together with the brief preceding narrative of the birth of Er, Onan, and Shelah, and the subsequent narrative of the birth of Perez's children, the passage is often regarded as presenting a significant chronological issue, since it is surrounded by a narrative concerning Joseph ; before the passage occurs, Joseph is described as being 17 years old, and after the passage, Joseph is described as meeting up with Judah some 9 years after Joseph had reached 30 years in age.

M. H. Abrams defined allusion as " a brief reference, explicit or indirect, to a person, place or event, or to another literary work or passage ".

Other stars possess multiple points, such as Sparta, the Imperial capital, suggested ( in a brief passage of the sequel ) to have over a dozen jump points to various systems.

Close reading describes, in literary criticism, the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text.

She chose a brief passage from the final chapter of Population Bomb to show that Ehrlich had discussed an extreme solution to extreme cases of overpopulation: " compulsory birth regulation ... ( through ) the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food.

Besides the Exegesis, Dick described his visions and faith in numerous other works, including VALIS, Radio Free Albemuth, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, one brief passage in A Scanner Darkly, and the uncompleted The Owl in Daylight, as well as many essays and personal letters.

What causes the passage to be so shocking, indeed, is the power of sustaining over such a long phrase what we expect as a brief explosion.

Donald Hill has identified a possible reference to a water-powered paper mill in Samarkand, in the 11th-century work of the Persian scholar Abu Rayhan Biruni, but concludes that the passage is " too brief to enable us to say with certainty " that it refers to a water-powered paper mill.

A brief break comes in the form of a transition passage with repetitive triplets played by high strings, accented by slap pizzicati in the cellos and bass.

* Tzakhot ( 1145 ), on linguistic correctness, his best grammatical work, which also contains a brief outline of modern Hebrew meter ; first ed.

In his brief survey of Arabic translations of the Bible, al-Masʿūdī states that the Israelites rely for exegesis and translation of the Hebrew books — i. e., the Torah, Prophets, and Psalms, twenty-four books in all, he says — on a number of Israelites whom they praise highly, almost all of whom he has met in person.

The Jewish Encyclopedia article on the Hebrew Alphabet states: " Not until the revolts against Nero and against Hadrian did the Jews return to the use of the old Hebrew script on their coins, which they did from motives similar to those which had governed them two or three centuries previously ; both times, it is true, only for a brief period.

Every episode would include a brief Hebrew lesson, stepping through the Aleph-Bet ( Hebrew alphabet ).

He is mentioned by name only once in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, in the introduction to his own brief book, as the son of Pethuel ().

In brief, Sephardi Hebrew appears to be a descendant of the Palestinian tradition, partially adapted to accommodate the Tiberian notation and further influenced by the pronunciation of Arabic, Spanish and Judaeo-Spanish ( Ladino ).

Each " Seal " or " Table " ( in the Seventh Book ) is paired with an incantation ( reputedly Hebrew ) and a very brief description of its powers.

After a brief period of training in Germany, Youth Aliyah youngsters were placed on kibbutzim for two years to learn farming and Hebrew.

* A brief Account, historical and critical, of the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament, to which is added a Dissertation on the comparative Excellency of the Hebrew and Samaritan Pentateuch ( 1787 );

Sunday services are held throughout the year and weekly testimony meetings are held on Wednesday evenings, where following brief readings from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, those in attendance are invited to give testimonies of healing brought about through Christian Science prayer.

Voortrekker ' Uncle ' Paul Kruger, first president of the South African Republic upon its reacquired independence after the brief British annexation, adopted the Calvinstic principles in its political form, and formulated the Boer cultural mandate based on the Afrikaner Calvinist conviction that the South Africans had a special calling from God, not unlike the people of Israel in the Bible.

Hayden Covington answered the state's appeal in a brief that was a mixture of Jehovah's Witnesses Bible

The test case was the book of Joshua and its account of a rapid, destructive conquest of the Canaanite cities: but by the 1960s it had become clear that the archaeological record did not, in fact, support the account of the conquest given in Joshua: the cities which the Bible records as having been destroyed by the Israelites were either uninhabited at the time, or, if destroyed, were destroyed at widely different times, not in one brief period.

After a brief spell as a Sunday school teacher, he became disturbed by discrepancies between the Thirty-nine Articles of the Anglican Church and the Bible.

() Apart from these brief references at the end of the Book of Job, Jemima is not mentioned elsewhere in the Bible.

In 2007, the ESV Literary Study Bible — with extensive introductions and essays alongside brief annotation ( focusing on the Bible as literature ) written by professor of English literature Leland Ryken of Wheaton College and his son, Presbyterian pastor and theologian Philip Ryken — was published by Crossway Bibles, the publisher of the ESV.

Although several brief studies of the teachings of the book of Moses had previously appeared as part of apologetic and doctrinally-focused LDS commentaries on the Pearl of Great Price, the first detailed verse-by-verse commentary — and the first to incorporate significant amounts of modern non-LDS Bible scholarship — was published by Richard D. Draper, S. Kent Brown, and Michael D. Rhodes in 2005.

Long considered the " Bible of the Industry ," it has been published annually ever since then, with just a brief hiatus during World War II.

The Velislai biblia picta is an illuminated manuscript of 1325-1349, which is in effect a picture-book of the Bible, as the text is limited to brief titles or descriptions of the 747 pictures from the Old Testament and the New Testament, from the writings about the Antichrist and from the legends of the saints, especially St Wenceslas.

Unlike a simple " illustrated Bible ", where the pictures are subordinated to the text, these Bibles placed the illustration in the centre, with only a brief text or sometimes no text at all.