The opening passage ( Nahum 1: 2-3 ) states: " God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth ; the LORD revengeth, and is furious ; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

The necessity of an evangelist office in the church organization has been reinforced repeatedly, based on the passage in Ephesians 4: 11, which states, " And he gave some, apostles ; and some, prophets ; and some, evangelists ; and some, pastors and teachers ".

( This section contains Matthew 16: 13 – 19, in which Simon, newly renamed Peter, ( πέτρος, petros, meaning " stone "), calls Jesus " the Christ, the son of the living God ", and Jesus states that on this " bedrock " ( πέτρα, petra ) he will build his church — the passage forms the foundation for the papacy's claim of authority ).

In this passage, Pytheas states that the " Gutones, a people of Germany ," inhabit the shores of an estuary of at least 6, 000 stadia ( the Baltic Sea ) called Mentonomon, where amber is cast up by the waves.

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.

James Dunn states that there is " broad consensus " among scholars regarding the nature of an authentic reference to Jesus in the Testimonium and what the passage would look like without the interpolations.

Wells further states that differences between the Josephus account and those of Hegesippus and Clement of Alexandria may point to interpolations in the James passage.

Andreas Köstenberger states that the fact that the 10th century Arabic version of the Testimonium ( discovered in the 1970s ) lacks distinct Christian terminology while sharing the essential elements of the passage indicates that the Greek Testimonium has been subject to interpolation.

Louis Feldman states that the authenticity of the Josephus passage on James has been " almost universally acknowledged " Feldman states that this passage, above others, indicates that Josephus did say something about Jesus.

Paul L. Maier states that most scholars agree with Feldman's assessment that " few have doubted the genuineness of this passage " Zvi Baras also states that most modern scholars consider the James passage to be authentic.

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.

Richard Bauckham states that although a few scholars have questioned the James passage, " the vast majority have considered it to be authentic ", and that among the several accounts of the death of James the account in Josephus is generally considered to be historically the most reliable.

Andreas Köstenberger considers the James passage to be authentic and states that the James passage attests to the existence of Jesus as a historical person, and that his followers considered him the Messiah.

Claudia Setzer states that few have questioned the authenticity of the James passage, partly based on the observation that a Chrisian interpolator would have provided more praise for James.

Setzer states that the passage indicates that Josephus, a Jewish historian writing towards the end of the first century, could use a neutral tone towards Christians, with some tones of sympathy, implying that they may be worthy of Roman protection.

John Painter states that nothing in the James passage looks suspiciously like a Christian interpolation and that the account can be accepted as historical.

Painter discusses the role of Ananus and the background to the passage, and states that after being deposed as High Priest for killing James and being replaced by Jesus the son of Damnaeus, Ananus had maintained his influence within Jerusalem through bribery.

Philip Carrington states that there is no reason to question the authenticity of the Josephus passage on James, and elaborates the background by stating that Ananus continued to remain a power within the Jewish circles at the time even after being deposed, and that it is likely that the charges brought against James by Ananus were not only because of his Christian association but because he objected to the oppressive policies against the poor ; hence explaining the later indignation of the more moderate Jewish leaders.

Toward the end of the thirteenth century, the House of Habsburg coveted the area around the Gotthard Pass in order to secure this shortest passage to Italy.

The wide passage between Cape Horn and Livingston Island is the shortest crossing from Antarctica to the rest of the world's land.

This follows from the fact that most shortest paths between nodes flow through hubs, and if a peripheral node is deleted it is unlikely to interfere with passage between other peripheral nodes.

This was followed two days later with the passage of the Congressional authorization to attack French warships.

Over three days of debate, Congress made changes and deleted nearly a fourth of the text, most notably a passage critical of the slave trade.

Michigan, led by the young and hot-headed Mason, responded with the passage of the Pains and Penalties Act just six days after Lucas County was formed ; the act made it a criminal offense for Ohioans to carry out governmental actions in the Strip, under penalty of a fine up to $ 1, 000 and / or up to five years imprisonment at hard labor.

Over several days of debate, Congress made a few changes in wording and deleted nearly a fourth of the text, most notably a passage critical of the slave trade, changes that Jefferson resented.

D ' Urville investigated the passage for several days in 1827, and damaged his ship passing through it.

The passage of stone fragments may take a few days or a week and may cause mild pain.

In the days following the assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson made an address to Congress: " No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the Civil Rights Bill for which he fought so long.

A few days later, the mouth of Frobisher Bay was reached, and because ice and wind prevented further travel north, Frobisher determined to sail westward up this passage ( which he conceived to be a strait ) to see " whether he might carry himself through the same into some open sea on the back side.

: For this purpose the rites are to be simplified, due care being taken to preserve their substance ; elements which, with the passage of time, came to be duplicated, or were added with but little advantage, are now to be discarded ; other elements which have suffered injury through accidents of history are now to be restored to the vigor which they had in the days of the holy Fathers, as may seem useful or necessary.

In 1964, as Southern Democratic Senators staged a filibuster that ran 54 days to block passage of the Civil Rights bill of 1964 ( see Civil Rights Act of 1964, Senators Dirksen, Thomas Kuchel ( R-CA ), Hubert Humphrey ( D-MN ), and Mike Mansfield ( D-MT ) introduced a substitute bill and slightly weaker bill that they hoped would attract enough Republican swing votes to end the filibuster.

The war ended with the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 after 34 days of fighting.

According to Article 91, within fifteen days of passage of a bill by the Cortes Generales, the king shall give his assent and publish the new law.

This practice, implemented successfully since the days of Meiji but never formalized, became law in 1979 with the passage of the.

He spent much of his life as a Thames waterman, a member of the guild of boatmen that ferried passengers across the River Thames in London, in the days when the London Bridge was the only passage between the banks.

The code was simple and when broken revealed one passage of such obscenity, for those days, that the letter could not by law be printed in England.

The first passage establishes the timing, in days, for the Festival of Weeks ( Shavuot ), while the second prescribes the timing, in years, for the Jubilee.

One of these structures, the Mound of the Hostages, has a short passage which is aligned with sunrise on the solar cross-quarter days, which fall at the midpoints between the solstices and equinoxes.

Four days later, they found their way into open water and were hoping that they would have a clear passage to their destination.

Mahathir tried to pre-emptively limit the power that the new Agong could wield over his government, introducing to parliament amendments to the Constitution to deem the Agong to assent to any bill that had not been assented within 15 days of passage by parliament.

The asylum, located on the site of the abandoned Ovid Agricultural College, was named in memory of Dr. Willard, who died of typhoid fever just days before passage of the bill he authored.

Pressure from the conservative right, however, forced the passage of the Peace Preservation Law of 1925 along with other anti-radical legislation, only ten days before the passage of universal manhood suffrage.

It was the first clock in which an automaton reacted after certain intervals of time ( in this case, a humanoid robot striking the cymbal and a mechanical robotic bird chirping ) and the first water clock to accurately record the passage of the temporal hours to match the uneven length of days throughout the year.

From the time of his appointment to the Bibliothèque Nationale up to the last days of his life he was engaged in making abstracts of all the medieval Latin writings ( many anonymous or of doubtful attribution ) relating to philosophy, theology, grammar, Canon law, and poetry, carefully noting on cards the first words of each passage.