It developed among the Stoics, who emphasized the natural equality of all rational beings, and in early New Testament Christianity, which elevated the equality of human beings before God to a principle: one to be sure not always adhered to later by the Christian church.
The name Narcissus (feminine Narcissa) was not uncommon in Roman times, such as Tiberius Claudius Narcissus, a Roman official in Claudius' time, an early New Testament Christian in Rome and later bishops and saints.
The fact that only two people died compared with 326 in the earlier storm is testament to the tidal barriers built in Britain over the past few decades.
RAZMAK, Pakistan — On an operating table at a makeshift trauma center at this military base in North Waziristan, a Pakistani soldier lay anesthetized, blood-soaked bandages applied in the field just an hour earlier a testament to a near-fatal wound.
The other three works on the program were all created for Ailey II last year (although Jessica Lang's "Splendid Isolation II" is a reworking of an earlier piece), testament to Ms. Waters's quietly consistent pursuit of new choreography.
Luther's Bible, one of the earlier vernacular testaments, had illustrations that combine, in the same frame, events in Job that occurred many verses apart.
In a sense, those early years are testament to Blair's fortitude and sense of self.
Solo shows are having a mixed reception on Broadway, with the early closing of "Testament of Mary" (starring Fiona Shaw) on Sunday and the shut-outs of "I'll Eat You Last" (Bette Midler) and "Macbeth" (Alan Cumming) for Tony Award nominations this week.
Although we see no celebration of Easter in the New Testament, early church fathers celebrated it, and today many churches are offering "sunrise services" at Easter – an obvious pagan solar celebration.
Both composers' early pieces were testament to the fact that, even with the austere limitations that they placed on their material, they could create music of extraordinary emotional impact.
