Eusebius ' Preparation for the Gospel bears witness to the literary tastes of Origen: Eusebius quotes no comedy, tragedy, or lyric poetry, but makes reference to all the works of Plato and to an extensive range of later philosophic works, largely from Middle Platonists from Philo to the late 2nd century.

At about this time Eusebius compiled a Collection of Ancient Martyrdoms, presumably for use as a general reference tool.

* With reference to Gibbon's comments, Joseph Barber Lightfoot ( late 19th century theologian and former Bishop of Durham ) pointed out that Eusebius ' statements indicate his honesty in stating what he was not going to discuss, and also his limitations as a historian in not including such material.

Aside from the legend that Pilate had made an image of Christ, the 4th-century Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Church History, provides a more substantial reference to a " first " icon of Jesus.

The earliest secure reference to this passage is found in the writings of the fourth-century Christian apologist and historian Eusebius, who used Josephus ' works extensively as a source for his own Historia Ecclesiastica.

In his Church History ( Book I, Chapter XI ) Eusebius discusses the Josephus reference to how Herod Antipas killed John the Baptist, and mentions the marriage to Herodias in items 1 to 6.

In the same Book I chapter, in items 7 and 8 Eusebius also discusses the Josephus reference to the crucifixion of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, a reference that is present in all surviving Eusebius manuscripts.

In item 20 of that chapter Eusebius then mentions Josephus ' reference to the death of James and the sufferings that befell those who killed him.

However, Eusebius does not acknowledge Origen as one of his sources for the reference to James in Josephus.

In Book II, Chapter 23. 20 of his Church History, Eusebius mentions Josephus ' reference to the death of James and the sufferings that befell those who killed him.

Eusebius does not acknowledge Origen as one of his sources for the reference to James in Josephus.

Even after Eusebius ' 324 AD reference, it is not until Jerome's De Viris Illustribus ( c. 392 AD ) that the passage from Josephus is referenced again, even though the Testimoniums reference to Jesus would seem appropriate in the works of many intervening patristic authors.

Paul Maier states that a comparison of Eusebius ' reference with the 10th century Arabic version of the Testimonium due to Agapius of Hierapolis indicates that the Christian interpolation present in the Testimonium must have come early, before Eseubuis.

Eusebius gives some extracts from his letter to one Aristides, reconciling the apparent discrepancy between Matthew and Luke in the genealogy of Christ by a reference to the Jewish law of Levirate marriage, which compelled a man to marry the widow of his deceased brother, if the latter died without issue.

The first reference to 3 John is in the middle of the third century ; Eusebius says that Origen knew of both 2 and 3 John, however Origen is reported as saying " all do not consider them genuine.

Into modern times the Gospel of Peter had been known only from early quotations, especially from a reference by Eusebius to a letter publicly circulated by Serapion in 190 – 203, who had found upon examining it that " most of it belonged to the right teaching of the Saviour ," but that some parts might encourage its hearers to fall into the Docetist heresy.

Sextus Julius Africanus's reference to the Desposyni is preserved in Eusebius of Caesarea's Ecclesiastical History:

This reference to Cainan is present in the Septuagint and Samaritan versions of the Book of Genesis, as well as in the Book of Jubilees ; however, the early Christian apologists Irenaeus and Eusebius believed it to be an error, as do many modern interpreters, mainly on the basis of his omission from the Masoretic ( Hebrew ) version.

The connection is first made in the Oration of Constantine appended to the Life of Constantine by Eusebius of Caesarea ( a reading to which Dante makes fleeting reference in his Purgatorio ).

Scorsese changed the title from Season of the Witch to Mean Streets, a reference to Raymond Chandler's essay " The Simple Art of Murder ", where he writes, " But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

Even read-only operations like calculating the length of a list require a large number of reads and writes for reference updates with naive reference counting.

In his memoirs, Wilson writes of " selling LBJ a bum steer ", a reference to Johnson's Texas origins, which conjured up images of cattle and cowboys in British minds.

There is no reference of the Sudarium for the first several hundred years after the Crucifixion of Jesus, until its mention in 570 in an account by Antoninus of Piacenza, who writes that the Sudarium is being cared for in a cave near the monastery of Saint Mark, in the vicinity of Jerusalem.

* The first known reference to sugar cane appears in writings by Alexander the Great's admiral Nearchus, who writes of Indian reeds " that produce honey, although there are no bees ".

The first non-Christian reference to the massacre is recorded four centuries later by Macrobius ( c. 395-423 ), who writes in his Saturnalia:

" Barry writes that " In the first six months of 1918, Miner ’ s warning of ‘ influenza of a severe type ’ was the only reference in that journal to influenza anywhere in the world.

In reference to Presence and Resistance by Philip Auslander, a performance art critic, Sally Banes writes “… by the end of the 1980s, performance art had become so widely known that it no longer needed to be defined ; mass culture, especially television, had come to supply both structure and subject matter for much performance art ; and several performance artists, including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, Willem Dafoe, and Ann Magnuson, had indeed become crossover artists in mainstream entertainment .”

In the 1989 reference book Worlds of the Federation, author Shane Johnson writes of Zefram Cochrane being a native to the Alpha Centauri system ( which is populated by humans transplanted from Earth in antiquity ) who is contacted by the United Nations spaceship Icarus, a sublight ship that is the first human ship to travel to another solar system.

In justification of his reference to Olduvai Gorge, Duncan writes:

The first reference to the word with the modern spelling is dated 1631 or 1632 in a letter by a man named Preswick Eaton where he writes: " procuer mee two good Bulldogs, and let them be sent by ye first shipp ".

John Woods writes that philosophical logic investigates properties such as truth, meaning and reference in natural languages.

In this article John Harris writes about music journalism with reference to the well-known journalists Nick Kent and Lester Bangs.

The film can also be seen as a reference to Stephen King, who, like Lovecraft, also writes horror fiction set in New England hamlets.

Similarly, Michael Witzel ( 1995b ) writes about terms like krsna tvac that " while it would be easy to assume reference to skin colour, this would go against the spirit of the hymns: for Vedic poets, black always signifies evil, and any other meaning would be secondary in these contexts ".

John Heritage writes, “ In it ’ s open-ended reference to study of any kind of sense-making procedure, the term represents a signpost to a domain of uncharted dimensions rather than a staking out of a clearly delineated territory .”

Cicero writes in 60 BC of a defeat sustained by the Aedui, perhaps in reference to this battle.

The errors that Purify discovers include array bounds reads and writes, trying to access unallocated memory, freeing unallocated memory ( usually due to freeing the same memory for the second time ), as well as memory leaks ( allocated memory with no pointer reference ).

In his introduction to an interview with Michael Bishop, in a reference to Bishop's short story collections, Nick Gevers writes " These volumes, combining the sublimely exotic and the drawlingly familiar, satirical humour and timeless tragedy, constitute one of the finest short fiction oeuvres in SF's history .".

In reference to Zeno's paradox of the arrow in flight, Alfred North Whitehead writes that " an infinite number of acts of becoming may take place in a finite time if each subsequent act is smaller in a convergent series ":

In another Protoball reference, Henry C. Whitney, in Lincoln the Citizen writes of the future President in 1860: " During the settling on the convention Lincoln had been trying, in one way and another, to keep down the excitement ... playing billiards a little, town ball a little, and story-telling a little.

In reference to his experience in Chile, Guevara also writes: " The most important effort that needs to be done is to get rid of the uncomfortable ' Yankee-friend '.

In the preface, Dick Gregory ( whose autobiography was entitled Nigger ) writes: " In abolishing and eliminating the Caucasian-Christian philosophical and literary forms while recording his black experiences, this writer has removed himself from their double-standard frames of reference.