The author opens with a prologue, usually taken to be addressed to an individual by the name of Theophilus ( though this name, which translates literally as " God-lover ", may be a nickname rather than a personal appellation ) and references " my earlier book "— almost certainly the Gospel of Luke.

* a passage in which Mordecai interprets his dream ( from the prologue ) in terms of the events that followed

The speeches of Elihu ( who is not mentioned in the prologue ) are claimed to contradict the fundamental opinions expressed by the " friendly accusers " in the central body of the poem, according to which it is impossible that the righteous should suffer, all pain being a punishment for some sin.

It is set in the land of Edom, which has been retained as the background, and in the prologue and epilogue, the name of God is YHWH, a name that even the Edomites used.

In 1971, SLON made Le Train en marche, a new prologue to Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin's 1935 film Schastye, which had recently been re-released in France.

In his prologue to his translation of the book of Romans, which was largely taken from the prologue of German Reformer Martin Luther, Tyndale writes that:

The specific type of monologue ( or soliloquy ) in which a Plautine slave engages is the prologue.

Under its referencing system, which uses Roman numerals, II. ii. 33 means act 2, scene 2, line 33, and a 0 in place of a scene number refers to the prologue to the act.

To highlight his evil and villainous rise to power, Ui is compared to Shakespeare's Richard III and Macbeth in both the introductory prologue and in scene 14 when he experiences similar visitations from the ghosts of his victims as Richard and Macbeth do ; while Hitler's own learned prowess at public speaking is referenced by Ui receiving lessons from an actor which include him reciting Mark Antony's famous speech from Julius Caesar.

a prologue to one of his plays, Terence meets the charge of receiving assistance in the composition of his plays by claiming as a great honour the favour which he enjoyed with those who were the favorites of the Roman people.

The book must begin ( not including prologue which was set end of previous year ) in January 1986.

Winter's Heart was the first Wheel of Time book for which the prologue, entitled " Snow ", was first sold as an ebook in advance of the physical release of the book.

More important, however, was the prologue, which comprised sung dialogue between allegorical characters which introduced the overarching themes of the stories depicted.

It contains twenty-three books ; the final book, which deals with the events of 1183 and the beginning of 1184, has only a prologue and one chapter, so it is either unfinished or the rest of the pages were lost before the whole chronicle began to be copied.

However, in the serialised publication of Dance of the Gull-Catchers Moore included an " author's statement " which consisted of a blown-up panel from the prologue, depicting the psychic Robert James Lees confessing that although his visions were fraudulent, they were accurate: " I made it all up, and it all came true anyway.

But the pantomime that had the greatest appeal to his public was the " pantomime-arlequinade-féerie ", sometimes " in the English style " ( i. e., with a prologue in which characters were transformed into the Commedia types ).

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

Lucas first introduced the Holy Grail in an idea for the film's prologue, which was to be set in Scotland.

It included the prologue that was eventually filmed ; Lucas had to convince Spielberg to show Indiana as a boy because of the mixed response to Empire of the Sun, which was about a young boy.

The prologue depicting Indiana in his youth inspired Lucas to create The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television show, which featured Sean Patrick Flanery as the young adult Indiana and Corey Carrier as the 8 – 10 year-old Indiana.

German author Wolfgang Hohlbein revisited the 1912 prologue in one of his novels, in which Indiana encounters the lead grave robber — whom Hohlbein christens Jake — in 1943.

Warcraft III < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s campaign mode is broken up into five campaigns ( Including an optional prologue ), each featuring a different race which the player controls ( 2 Orc campaigns, 1 Human, 1 Undead, and 1 Night Elf ).

In the prologue of the book The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age ( 2001 ) Torvalds introduces his " Linus's Law ", which is that every motivation that makes a man do something can be classified under " survival ", " social life " and " entertainment.

In the PC / Mac version of the Spider-Man 2 game, the prologue cutscene takes most of the cutscene from the main console version where Dr. Octavius ' machine goes haywire and Spider-Man swings in to stop it.

The first chapter, which takes place between July 6 and August 20, 1998, serves as a prologue to the second chapter.

The game takes place in three parts: a prologue, eight chapters, and an epilogue.

It is believed that the prologue in this form was practically the invention of Euripides, and with him, as has been said, it takes the place of an explanatory first act.

The story ’ s historical prologue takes place in December 1944.

Chronologically, it takes place after the prologue to Erikson's Gardens of the Moon but before the main body of the novel.

This unnarrated introduction is wrapped with sounds of nature and Buddhist music that is in homage to Kawai's previous score on the prologue of Oshii's Patlabor 2: the Movie which takes place in a Cambodian forest and features a giant Buddha statue.

It takes up most of the author's prologue to the 4th Book and is considerably extended in his typically prolix and circuitous style.

The situation as it is in The Orc King also furthers the growing desire for peace within Obould ; this, of course, is only strengthened by the story of the prologue ( which takes place over a century past The Hunter's Blades Trilogy ), which obviously shows Obould's vision of the future as an inevitability.

Kenneth Kitchen states that nearly all treaties in this period follow the pattern of Deuteronomy closely, while first-millennium treaties contrarily but consistently place " witnesses " earlier and omit prologue and blessing sections, requiring classification of the Sinai covenant and its renewals in Joshua with the fourteenth or thirteenth century rather than the sixth.

In 2009 the prologue and opening stage of the Vuelta a España took place in Assen.

Rickmansworth is a place in England where, according to the prologue to the first novel, a young woman sitting on her own in a small cafe ( later identified as Fenchurch in the fourth book ) realized how the Earth could be made a good and happy place.

While travelling to Scotland, Bond befriends an older boy named " Red "( for his bright red hair ) Kelly who is travelling to the same place in search for his missing cousin, Alfie who disappeared whilst out fishing ( thus tying in with the prologue ).

The 1985 Tour de France was the 72nd Tour de France, taking place June 28 to July 21, 1985, over 4109 km in 22 stages and a prologue.

The importance, therefore, of the prologue in Greek drama was very great ; it sometimes almost took the place of a romance, to which, or to an episode in which, the play itself succeeded.

Étienne Jodelle's Cléopâtre captive ( 1553 ) — which tells the impassioned fears and doubts of Cleopatra contemplating suicide — has the distinction of being the first original French play to follow Horace's classical precepts on structure ( the play is in five acts and respects more or less the unities of time, place and action ) and is extremely close to the ancient model: the prologue is introduced by a shade, there is a classical chorus which comments on the action and talks directly to the characters, and the tragic ending is described by a messenger.

For the limited 1985 edition of Trumps of Doom, Zelazny wrote a prologue which details Merlin's passage through the Logrus.

Cross's study was the beginning of a series of attacks on the documentary hypothesis, continued notably by the work of Hans Heinrich Schmid ( The So-called Jahwist, 1976, questioning the date of the Jahwistic source ), Martin Rose ( 1981, proposing that the Jahwist was composed as a prologue to the history which begins in in Joshua ), and John Van Seters ( Abraham in History and Tradition, proposing a 6th century BCE date for the story of Abraham, and therefore for the Jahwist ).

* In Super Street Fighter IV during Rose's prologue, Rose is actually holding the card of reckless heroism known as, The Fool.