The context of the passage is the period following the death of Porcius Festus, and the journey to Alexandria by Lucceius Albinus, the new Roman Procurator of Judea, who held that position from 62 AD to 64 AD.

John Painter states that phrase " who was called Christ " is used by Josephus in this passage " by way of distinguishing him from others of the same name such as the high priest Jesus son of Damneus, or Jesus son of Gamaliel " both having been mentioned by Josephus in this context.

The arguments surrounding the authenticity of the Testimonium fall into two categories: internal arguments that rely on textual analysis and compare the passage with the rest of Josephus ' work ; and external arguments, that consider the wider cultural and historical context.

A further internal argument against the Testimonium's authenticity is the context of the passage in the Antiquities of the Jews.

Van Voorst states that the James passage fits well in the context in the Antiquities and an indication for its authenticity is the lack of the laudatory language that a Christian interpolator would have used to refer to Jesus as " the Lord ", or a similar term.

Craig Evans states that almost all modern scholars consider the Josephus passage on John to be authentic in its entirety, and that what Josephus states about John fits well both with the general depiction of John in the New Testament and within the historical context of the activities of other men, their preachings and their promises during that period.

Craig Blomberg states that if the three elements " lawful to call him a man ", " he was the Christ " and the reference to the resurrection are removed from the Testimonium the rest of the passage flows smoothly within the context, fits the style of Josephus and is likely to be authentic.

The context of this remark, however, suggests only that Aristotle advised that it could be rhetorically advantageous to appeal to such a law, especially when the " particular " law of ones ' own city was adverse to the case being made, not that there actually was such a law ; Aristotle, moreover, considered two of the three candidates for a universally valid, natural law suggested in this passage to be wrong.

The context of this remark, however, suggests only that Aristotle advised that it could be rhetorically advantageous to appeal to such a law, especially when the " particular " law of one's own city was averse to the case being made, not that there actually was such a law ; Aristotle, moreover, considered two of the three candidates for a universally valid, natural law provided in this passage to be wrong.

The context of the passage is the six-day Great Fire of Rome that burned much of the city in AD 64 during the reign of Roman Emperor Nero.

The statement in the English Bill of Rights concerning the right to bear arms is often quoted only in the passage where it is written as above and not in its full context.

In the context of European royalty, a morganatic marriage is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which prevents the passage of the husband's titles and privileges to the wife and any children born of the marriage.

The Vetus Latina Bible contains a passage Est tamen ille dæmon sodalis peccati (" The devil is a companion of sin "), in a context that suggests that the word meant little more than an article.

A lost passage of Pindar quoted by Strabo was the earliest traceable reference in this context: " the pillars which Pindar calls the ' gates of Gades ' when he asserts that they are the farthermost limits reached by Heracles.

" The context of this passage refers to the yoke of Sennacherib, and how his oppressive nature is overturned by that of Hezekiah who was said to be as mild as oil.

The Hebrew word is " עלמה " ( almah ), which scholars agree means a young woman of child-bearing age, without any connotation of virginity, and the context of the passage makes it clear that Isaiah has in mind events in his and Ahaz's near future.

A passage often quoted ( apart from the context ) in one of Calvin's letters ( January 1, 1552 ) has been viewed as a rapture of amicable intercourse ; but, while more than once uneasy apprehensions arose in Calvin's mind, there was no breach of correspondence or of kindliness.

He is reported in one passage to " have crossed the water ", the water in context is unknown and perhaps is reference to some exploratory mission, however the remainder of the passage deals exclusively with Ireland.

In the context of a liturgy, epistle may refer more specifically to a particular passage from a New Testament epistle ( the Pauline epistles and the General epistles ) — sometimes also from the Book of Acts or the Revelation of John, but not the Four Gospels — that is scheduled to be read on a certain day or at a certain occasion.

The passage is often regarded as presenting a significant chronological issue, as the surrounding context appears to constrain the events of the passage to happening within 22 years, and the context together with the passage itself requires the birth of the grandson of Judah and of his son's wife, and the birth of that son, to have happened within this time ( to be consistent, this requires an average of less than 8 years gap per generation ).

Thus the films seen as they came in ( coordinated for the regular sections ), were often out of context.

The personal pronouns and substitute one are normally unstressed because they refer to what is prominent in the immediate context.

Anchored crosses are occasionally a feature of coats of arms in which context they are referred to by the heraldic terms anchry or ancre.

In this context the use of Alemanni is possibly an anachronism but it reveals that Ammianus believed they were the same people, which is consistent with the location of the Alemanni of Caracalla's campaigns.

) Similarly, when Jewish families and larger groups sing traditional Sabbath songs known as zemirot outside the context of formal religious services, they usually do so a cappella, and Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations on the Sabbath sometimes feature entertainment by a cappella ensembles.

When AI researchers attempt to " scale up " their systems to handle more complicated, real world situations, the programs tend to become excessively brittle without commonsense knowledge or a rudimentary understanding of the situation: they fail as unexpected circumstances outside of its original problem context begin to appear.

The Big Book ( from Alcoholics Anonymous ) states that once a person is an alcoholic, they are always an alcoholic, but does not define what is meant by the term " alcoholic " in this context.

In 1995, Simon Keynes observed that " if Bede's concept of the Southumbrian overlord, and the chronicler's concept of the ' Bretwalda ', are to be regarded as artificial constructs, which have no validity outside the context of the literary works in which they appear, we are released from the assumptions about political development which they seem to involve ... we might ask whether kings in the eighth and ninth centuries were quite so obsessed with the establishment of a pan-Southumbrian state ".

Conspiratorial accounts can be emotionally satisfying when they place events in a readily understandable, moral context.

The current-carrying electrons in the conduction band are known as " free electrons ", although they are often simply called " electrons " if context allows this usage to be clear.

However, according to Justinus, 38. 3. 6, more than a decade later, at some time in 90-88 BCE, Mithridates the Great sent ambassadors to the Cimbri to request military aid ; judging from the context they must have been living in North Eastern Europe at the time.

Jewish Usenet Newsgroup FAQ ) The Conservative movement makes a conscious effort to use historical sources to determine what kind of changes to Jewish tradition have occurred, how and why they occurred, and in what historical context.

In this context, Philo wrote that Caligula " regarded the Jews with most especial suspicion, as if they were the only persons who cherished wishes opposed to his ".

The earliest genealogical records of the descendants of Cináed mac Ailpín may date from the end of the tenth century, but their value lies more in their context, and the information they provide about the interests of those for whom they were compiled, than in the unreliable claims they contain.

The earliest genealogical records of the descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin may date from the end of the 10th century, but their value lies more in their context, and the information they provide about the interests of those for whom they were compiled, than in the unreliable claims they contain.

While they may hold the document as sacred, and most certainly as central to Christianity, they are also aware of the historical and cultural context in which it was originally written through archaeological and from critical study.

They consider some verses such as those they say support slavery or the inferior treatment of women as not being valid today, and against the will of God present in the context of the Bible.

… Creation myths explain in metaphorical terms our sense of who we are in the context of the world, and in so doing they reveal our real priorities, as well as our real prejudices.

Absent proper context, the situation can seem as if it is two equally justifiable sides making moves and countermoves, nothing more.

) Cherry gives no specific date, but the context of events and history of the station would seem to place it also in the 1940s, perhaps earlier.

This has also been called " alternation of generations ", although as alternation between a diploid and a haploid generation is never found in animals, most modern sources seem to avoid the term in this context.

Numerous stone masks have been found at Teotihuacan, and have been generally believed to have been used during a funerary context, although some scholars call this into question, noting that masks " do not seem to have come from burials ".

Though it depends on context, it is estimated that any shot longer than about fifteen seconds will seem rather slow to viewers from Western cultures.

However, several of these figures also seem to carry swords or daggers, and Henig discusses them in the context of warrior cults.

Ideas such as this, that can seem alien to non-Orthodox thought, have a context that softens their harshness.

These ways of reading Buddhism in terms of a true Self certainly seem to have been congenial in the East Asian environment, and hence flourished in that context where for complex reasons Mahayana too found a ready home .’

And, finally, why do we seem to be unhappier now than when we began our initial pursuit for rich abundance ?” In this context, simple living is the opposite of our modern quest for affluence and, as a result, it becomes less preoccupied with quantity and more concerned about the preservation of cities, traditions and nature.

In the context of radical Maoism this made him seem like a social democratic proponent of market socialism.

But although these quotations seem reasonably accurate, their proper context is lost, thus their place in Arius ' larger system of thought is impossible to reconstruct.

It is important to note that whilst many gestures and actions have common, stereotypical meanings, researchers regularly seem to find that animal communication is often more complex and subtle than previously believed, and that the same gesture may have multiple distinct meanings depending on context and other behaviors.

They seem strange to modern puzzlers, because they require inferring words from context, which is not now a familiar solving technique.

Wu-Men comments in verse " Because it's so clear / it takes long to realize ", and straightforward it may seem, but this kōan is an idiom and the student is assumed to be aware of its cultural context.

These provisions, quoted out of context, seem homophobic, but in fact they are concerned not with the gender of the partners but with the loss of virginity that rendered a young woman unworthy of marriage.

What to most believers may seem nothing more than a reasonable request that the nonbeliever respect their religious practices, in a school context may appear to the nonbeliever or dissenter to be an attempt to employ the machinery of the State to enforce a religious orthodoxy.

In English, translations to " I should think " or " just to mention " seem possible, varying from context.

" Another writer says “ the context and the etymology seem to require the gum of some aromatic plant, perhaps gum-ladanum.

Conder writes that " the root of the Hebrew word means to drop or distil, and shecheleth would seem, therefore, to mean some exudation .” Another writer says that the Hebrew shecheleth identifies with the Syriac shehelta which is translated as “ a tear or distillation ” and that “ the context and the etymology seem to require the gum of some aromatic plant.

The fact that almost all the Celtiberian inscriptions were found out of archaeological context does not allow a precise chronology to be established, but it seem that the oldest inscriptions in Celtiberian script date to the 2nd century BCE and the recent ones date from the 1st century BCE.

Some of his assertions seem paradoxical and difficult to understand at first glance, not only because they are taken out of context, but above all because our habits of thought make us reduce everything to its visible appearance in the world instead of trying to attain its invisible reality in life.

As with the nouns, weak in this case means the declension in-n. In this context, the terms " strong " and " weak " seem particularly appropriate, since the strong declension carries more information about case and gender, while the weak declension is used in situations where the definite article already provides this information.